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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Im confused. Does McLean want to become a city just like Fairfax City, City of Falls Church, or just break off their own schools? Because this seems to be to be all about schools vs any other municipal services.

I guess my first question would be why you expect Fairfax County to just give you its school buildings/properties/other municipal buildings if you are going to secede from the county? These properties(Ie the land they are built on) are worth millions! [/quote]

The county has no way to unlock that value without investing many millions more in school facilities elsewhere. That is why such facilities are often ceded to seceding jurisdictions - the county would actually be relieved of the obligations associated with their existing dedicated use.  If you think it would be a bad deal for the county, you are acknowledging the county benefits by treating McLean as a cash cow without providing a reciprocal level of services. [/quote]

Why would Fairfax County give the land away though? Regardless of whats housed there—schools or parks or a warehouse, its land the county owns. Why would it give this land to a seceding jurisdiction? [/quote]

What purpose would it serve to retain ownership of the school buildings and land without the ability to tax the residents? Sounds like a tough piece of real estate to maintain without real estate taxes from McLean.[/quote]

There would be a shitload of hard feelings over this. Why wouldnt Fairfax County just sell it to a developer. Why would they want to help the City of McLean?[/quote]

I imagine a developer wouldnt touch this with a 10 foot pole. They probably would get exactly nowhere with the pissed off parents of students.[/quote]

When have real eatate developers even shown a shred of caring about anything but their bottom line? How many SFHs could be built on the McLean HS land? [/quote]

How many times are you going to repeat the same nonsense?

There is no scenario where the county is going to sell these schools to a developer.  They will either need them for FCPS, or it will be a negotiated transfer to a new jurisdiction that assumes responsibility for educating most if not all of the students who attend them currently. [/quote]

Why do you think this negotiated transfer is going to be so awesome and peaceful? Fairfax County isnt just going to give up McLean because the MCA wants them to.[/quote]

Never said it would be; however, at some point, the county might want to put an end to what would become an increasingly public airing of the reasons why McLean-area residents are so fed up with the county. [/quote]

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