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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anyway, Rockville Town Center is adding 710 units in the near future.  18 of which are for the disabled.  That 692 new units coming online in the next few years.  They will all be assigned to Beall/JW/RM.[/quote]

A [i]minimum[/i] of 18 of which are for people with disabilities.

But, ok, 692 new units. Assuming that they're high-rise buildings (I think that the county Planning Department considers 5 or more stories to be high-rise), and applying the county generation rates for the southwest region even though it's a City of Rockville development, we get:

69 elementary students (0.099 per unit)
27 middle-school students (0.039 per unit)
35 high school students (0.051 per unit)

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Many of the young, childless couples who live in those condos will eventually go on to have children.[/quote]

Yes, and? If they stay, then those children will eventually go on to elementary school, while the elementary school students go on to middle school, the middle-school students go on to high school, the high school students graduate from MCPS... That's how it works.[/quote]
The issue is that ES is K-5 so incoming Kers in the next two years will still be in ES when the next crop from the new development comes in. Also, as a PP noted, the MS and HS become over capacity.  Per MCPS, JWMS will be over capacity in five years, and this is *after* they expanded JW a few years ago.  JWMS is one of the largest MS in the county - over 1400 capacity. That is bigger than  some HS in the county. MS shouldn't be *that* big.[/quote]

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