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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wait, is Centreville High School being built on a different site, or is it for the trailers that are being brought or placed somewhere.[/quote]

No. Are you not familiar with the area?  Thes school is surrounded by parkland owned by the county, or possibly the county owns the whole site and leased it to FCPS. They need to renew the lease before they move forward with any plans to renovate or possibly expand.

The county wanted something in exchange for agree ing to up the lease, and it was something to do with land at Cub Run rec center, but I don't know what the story is with that,[/quote]

FCPS owns the land where Centreville is located but to meet zoning requirements it had to lease adjacent land from the Park Authority.

That lease ran out several years ago so technically FCPS has been out of compliance with county zoning laws. FCPS asked the Park Authority to grant them a new 99-year lease at no cost. The Park Authority refused and said it was legally required to seek fair compensation.

Alternatively, the Park Authority proposed to extend the lease at Braddock Park in exchange for FCPS extending a lease for the property where the Club Rub Recreation Center is located, which the Park Authority leases from FCPS.  FCPS refused on the grounds that the Cub Run lease is more valuable than its lease with the Park Authority.

So there was an extended stalemate and FCPS couldn’t move forward with the Centreville renovation and expansion until it was resolved.  However, they did go ahead and pay architects to design the big expansion, which was planned before FCPS bought Skyview.

It seems like they are closer to resolving the issues with the Park Authority but now they have to figure out whether they want to scale back the planned renovation and expansion.  If they do, it’s unclear whether they can simply modify the existing plans or would have to pay the architects more to come up with revised plans.

Very few people at CVHS actually want a gargantuan 3000-student school; however, many are frustrated with the delays, whether attributable to Skyview or the resolution of the leasing issues. If School Board members had devoted even a fraction of the time and attention they’ve devoted to Skyview to CVHS, this would have been resolved by now. [/quote]

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