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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How is this going to impact the comprehensive boundary review? The school is slated to open Fall 2028 if construction stays on schedule. Are they going to hold off on adjusting elementary school boundaries for the Marshall feeders until Dunn Loring opens? Or are they going to shuffle households around twice in a 2 year span? [/quote]

Those are good questions with no answers to date.

They have a bit of a mess now, with at least half the School Board expressing doubts as to the need for this school in public right around the same time as the Planning Commission is giving them a green light to build a new school that would only retain some elements of the existing 1930s building.  To secure the Planning Commission approval they had to play up the need for the school, but FCPS's own projections for the surrounding schools in the most recent draft Capital Improvement Program underscore it's not needed, at least not at this location. They would be best served by banking the Planning Commission approval, but putting any further work on hold indefinitely. [/quote]
I didn’t watch the planning commission meeting, but the only explanation I can fathom is that they are ignoring the CIP figures and considering some other figures.  For example, a few weeks ago, the planning commission approved the Commons and Mcleans redevelopment (subsequently approved by the Board of Supervisors this week) with up to 2,500 units which is projected to add 370 kids to Westgate. That may necessitate shrinking the Westgate boundaries, which would have downstream effects.[/quote]
The 370 number is all the projects bound for Westgate that are currently under construction. The pending project you’re describing would add up to an additional 135 on that. My point being, the projects under construction should be reflected in the latest CIP, but they aren’t.

Dunn Loring ES is not the place to relieve Westgate/Lemon Road capacity. The Pimmit Hills Center will do that, just as the Tysons ES site will better service the growth in Tysons outside the Beltway, but those projects aren’t slated to begin until 2032, and won’t serve students for another 10 years.

Most of the housing projects for Tysons are north of 7. By building a 900 seat elementary school in Dunn Loring, they’re going to be pulling students from inside the beltway or through Tysons to fill it. And then when it’s Pimmit Hills Center and Tysons ES’s turn, both sites which would better serve the community, questions will be raised for their needs, since they’ll put schools like Dunn Loring, Stenwood, and Shrevewood under capacity. [/quote]

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