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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don’t forget that the numbers will be off by the number of people South of the Pike that end up moving or going private. Since last night I’ve already heard from 2 families in Arlington Village that plan to move if rezoned from Henry/ Fleet to Drew. [/quote]

Can anyone summarize what is going on with these PUs? Are they now going to Drew?[/quote]

possibly.   the Staff wants to leave Columbia Heights at Abingdon so that they have the flexibility to move them if needed at part of the 2020 boundary process.  They also were directed by 4 out of 5 sb members to reduce the FARMS rate at Drew.  So that means either moving those south of the Pike units to Drew or moving the Southern part of Fairlington to Drew.[/quote]

You mean Columbia Forest. The PP was asking about Columbia Heights. PP, I don’t think anything has changed but signaling may be that those units should move to drew.

I think it’s a pretty unattractive thing to say that you’ll move if you get rezoned to a perceived inferior school (even though all of the units rezoned could contribute to a successful school community. But whatever. Those houses aren’t going to sit empty. [/quote]

To be fair, it’s a complete unknown. It’s not attractive to say it, sure, but a lot of people are probably thinking it even if they don’t express it. Look at how many people in the Drew zone don’t want to go to their own neighborhood school or choose Montessori. It’s no different and they don’t seem to be chastised. [/quote]

Property values in Nauck are already the lowest in Arlington so going to a neighborhood school is not going to affect us, in that sense. And families can still try for any of the option schools previously available.

And are people in Arlington Village seriously concerned about property values? Those are tiny, 60-year-old townhomes. The development is nice but come on, those are the kinds of houses that people buy, live in for a couple of years, and move on from. There are probably thousands of units like that in Arlington--AV has it's place in the market and the price of a given unit is not being driven by a school boundary the way it would be for a SFH sitting between, say, Ashlawn and Barrett. [/quote]

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