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Yes, of course, the county will see uneven population growth.  But the growth is just as likely to occur in the areas currently served by Metro slated for future development as along the future stations also slated for development.

And we can repeat the one-line sentence about the schools for which a new high school might provide capacity relief until we're all blue in the face.  It does not mean that those will be the only schools affected by the new school.  That won't be decided until the new school is built, and it will ultimately be determined by a future School Board - not the one elected in 2019 (few, if any, of whose members are likely to still be serving when the decisions are made).  [/quote]

Let’s use the common sense. Which areas would have more population growth? Between the areas which have the metro and already developed and the areas where the metro are going to be bulit and the density requirement is greatly reduced?

To me the answer is obvious but in the end it doesn’t even matter.  The basic argument here is that Herndon would not provide the relief to Langley becuase Herndon is expected to grow fast while Langley is not going to grow. Herndon doesn’t need to grow the fastest.  As long as it grows faster than Langley, which I think you would agree, the county officials will have a hard time finding the justification of moving kids from Langley to Herndon. [/quote]

I can't agree since it will depend not just on the growth, or lack thereof, at Langley, but also on the enrollments in other pyramids closer to Langley that are growing faster and what, if any, steps FCPS has taken in the intervening years before the new school opens to address growth at those schools.

It's been years since FCPS opened a new high school.  If and when they open a new one, they should not impose artificial barriers on which boundaries to consider adjusting.  [/quote]

So much this.[/quote]

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