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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The appeal if living far away on large plots of land ended. [/quote]

This. And even if that subset of buyers doesn't want to live in DC, they'd probably much prefer Arlington, McLean, or Alexandria over Great Falls.

When we were looking, our realtor tried to show us several houses in Great Falls, and I shut that down very quickly. [b]People want walkability and transit,[/b] and Great Falls offers zero of that. [/quote]

Major generalization.  Perhaps you do, but those of us who actually live in Great Falls chose it precisely because of its large lots, privacy, huge green spaces, and [b]no [/b]metro/urban center.  Great Falls attracts people who enjoy a more rural feel and don't want to be living on top of one another in a more urban area.  You couldn't pay me to live any closer to DC, and especially not Arlington or Alexandria.  [/quote]

Do you have neighbors with younger children committed to the public schools, PP?  I am hoping these neighborhoods will turn over soon and that FCPS will decide it does not have to cannibalize all the surrounding school districts just to fill up schools like Great Falls ES and Langley HS. [/quote]

It is a simple tweak to the boundary around Tyson's and McLean, they are closer than most of Great Falls anyway.  Move the boundary for Franklin Sherman students to go to Cooper/Langely to be north of Old Dominion and move the boundary in Tyson's to be the students north of Rt 123.  [/quote]

Not such a simple tweak if the numbers are in flux.

I think FCPS needs to wait until they build the new HS in western Fairfax and then do a county-wide redistricting.  There are so many moving parts. [/quote]

Ahh, the classic stall.  there is no perfect time to do a boundary change.  Marshall and McLean are bursting even more (McLean currently has 10 trailers) and Langley is sitting half empty, the tide will change faster than they can get around to building the elusive western county HS.  It won't happen until Langley's renovation is done- so you have at least that long. Moving AAP to Cooper will help for a few years. [/quote]

Ah, the over-the-top hyperbole!  Langley isn't half-empty.  It currently has 1967 students in a building designed for 1970 students.  The issue comes up primarily because FCPS made the ill-advised decision to expand the school's capacity to 2100 students right before they started projecting Langley's enrollment would decline to around 1750 kids. Rather than adjust their plans to add seats elsewhere, where they are actually needed, they just went ahead and started adding space to Langley, even though they already have students traveling 50 minutes each way to get there.  They need to step back and make sure they have sensible county-wide boundaries, and stop feeding Langley more single-family neighborhoods every time someone tells the School Board they want to move to Langley or that it might be under-enrolled years from now.[/quote]

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