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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most growth will come in WJ/Woodward area so I am happy to see they are leaving some space. Having said that i don't want any school to be overcrowded when we have space in WJ and Woodward. Some adjustment can be made to change zones. May be 102--103% can fly if students population is not expected to go up but 107% is too much.

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Every kid that's going to school in 2030 has been born already and is either in the county or will move there into existing housing. They can just agree to update boundaries again in 7-10 years based on what else happens population wise. [/quote]

False. There a couple hundred townhouses and at least 400-500 apartments that will deliver in the current WJ zone well before 2030, in addition to recently completed apartments that haven’t leased out yet. WJ and Woodward will be plenty full by 2030 unless the county’s population collapses, but in that case, a lot of schools would have extra space. [/quote]

Those new buildings won’t get filled with kids. Families are having less kids and moving out of the area when they do. I know this because our church uses a firm that has this data for the greater Kensington area. The population coming in is older and doesn’t have kids or just 1.[/quote]

The townhouses will have kids, and the apartments will have more than zero kids. I know this because the Planning Board collects this data directly from MCPS and uses it to determine impact fees. Kids in apartments increased last cycle because the housing market isn’t producing enough homes for sale. [/quote]

The planning board has been off in how they calculate the number of kids that come from apartments for a very long time. They need to accept that in a high cost of living area, more families are living in mult-family housing.[/quote]

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