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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The only reason timber lane is an island is because in 2013/2014 fairfax sold land to falls church city to end water wars. Unfair to now have our kids leave their schools/friends because of being an island but no other issues. [/quote]

Did that have to do with the new Meridian High School and adjacent development? [/quote]

For years Mary Ellen Henderson MS and George Mason (now Meridian) HS sat on property owned by Fairfax County even though they are Falls Church City schools.  One of the FCC elementary schools (Mt. Daniel ES) still sits in Fairfax County.

For years, some Fairfax County residents got their water from a water utility owned by Falls Church City.  It was very expensive and the county residents getting water from the FCC-owned utility claimed they were getting gouged.

As part of a deal, FCC transfered the water utility to the county, and the county transferred a parcel of land, including the land where Henderson and Meridian are now located, to FCC.  There's been later development on that parcel, which is near the West Falls Church Metro, as well. [/quote]

The county and the people who live in the county directly across the street from this development are pissed, by the way. Traffic is already a nightmare getting through FCC and this is just making it that much worse. Nobody would have expected this to happen, but here we are. FCC getting greeeeeeedy.[/quote]

There is development now happening in the adjacent area closer to the WFC Metro in the county. It will add kids to Haycock/Longfellow/McLean. FCC is just more nimble in approving plans so the development started there first. [/quote]

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