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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If they don't move immersion- [b]they should really jettison continguity as a requirement[/b].  Otherwise- they are going to have to do something like- Long Branch boundary picking up a few Rosslyn units, and dumping anything North of Pershing.  
Ashlawn tail flipping so its the Wilson to Pershing-and staying solely South of Wilson- hopefully getting a lot of Rosslyn.
McKinley jettisons all units North of 66- and takes the Ashlawn tail- possibly dips into Key.
Reed picks up a lot of the Mckinley boundary- the only Tuckahoe unit it takes is the one it is actually located in
Tuckahoe and Nottingham remain largely intact.

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No. contiguity is one of the considerations because everyone on the Rosslyn island hated going past closer schools to get to the "neighborhood" middle and high schools at Williamsburg and Yorktown. Making a new elementary level Rosslyn island when kids need aftercare is unacceptable. [/quote]

My point is that if you live in say- 24071, getting to Ashlawn is not going to seem any closer just b/c 460131 and 46030 are being shipped up there too.  We are going to be looking at boundaries that are 'planning until wide' and long if we don't move immersion.   So that makes continguity an overrated factor- just making the map look pretty?[/quote]

As a person who lives near 24071, I would say it makes a huge difference to me whether my kid's school is 1 mile away (Key), 2 miles away (ASFS or Long Branch) or 3 or more miles away (Taylor, Ashlawn?!, etc). If they can't work up the cajones to move immersion then everyone should have to shift slightly further, not just shipping a few unlucky units 3-5 miles away as an island.[/quote]

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