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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous].

This is simple.  FCPS can decide whether [b]the Langley pyramid, which has more capacity than others near Tysons[/b], should take on these additional students, or not.  If not, they should budgeting now to add capacity to schools in other pyramids. The fact that you're so overwrought about it doesn't make it any more complicated.   [/quote]

If you are talking about future capacity (which is the only thing relevant to a discussion of future development), Madison is projected to have much more capacity than Langley post-renovation.[/quote]

The area in question is contiguous to Langley's boundaries, not Madison's.  [/quote]

The area in question is actually contiguous to McLean's boundaries, not Langley's, thanks to Tholen's boundary shift switcheroo last year.[/quote]

It's actually now contiguous to both Langley's boundaries (to the northwest) and McLean's boundaries (to the east), thanks to Tholen's boundary change.

And McLean has no capacity but like Marshall (and unlike Langley) has plenty of apartments in Tysons and Merrifield. [/quote]

No, it's not contiguous to Langley's boundaries due to Tholen's boundary change. As another poster said, it's about 1/4 mile from any part of Langley zone. And that alone will be used as an argument that it couldn't possibly be assigned to Langley because then it would be a small attendance island which is not fair to the future residents/students to be isolated. This is an oh-so-convenient artifact of Tholen's change last year, is that it essentially isolates Langley from even [i]abutting[/i] potential lower-income housing options, further entrenching its demographic status quo.[/quote]

The additional 1/4 mile to which you refer is largely commercial and can easily be reassigned to Langley as well, so there would be no island.

The thread demonstrates just how hostile Langley and some others are to adding any housing diversity to their school, even when Langley remains under-capacity and otherwise stands to be unaffected by the growth affecting nearby schools with less capacity. [/quote]

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