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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Be aware that the school is already overcrowded and there is a ton of overdevelopment scheduled for that cluster.  There will be a boat load of new housing going up in the area, and there are no plans to alleviate the already overcrowded HS.[/quote]
The development is taking place over decades, and is mostly luxury METRO-based development that will have few kids. It's really a non-issue when you factor in that two new HSs will open before that development ever fully builds out.[/quote]

1. RM is already overcrowded without any additional developments 
2. There are other approved developments already in production that have nothing to do with the Twinbrook apartments. If you lived in the cluster you would realize this was an issue that was brought up during the RM ES #5 boundary study. There is new development expected in Tower Oaks which will be assigned to Bayard Rustin and other approved housing in the cluster. I believe around Fallsgrove was another approved site. I can't remember the other sites off the top of my head, but you can look in.the boundary study info online for all the developments that MCPS included for informational purposes, but conveniently did not include in their future projection numbers.
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If the developments are already approved, then they're also already included in the enrollment projections.[/quote]

You can look at projected number of Bayard Rustin used by MCPS and just take a look at capacity. BRES will be near capacity in 1-2 years. MCPS was still projecting that there will be empty seats after many years.

Clearly, numbers from new developments are included, but they are under-projected numbers and wrong.

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Part of the issue with the Bayard Rustin projections is the changes in the neighborhood.

Many of the SFHs in that neighborhood are being converted into multi-family rentals (illegally).  This leads to many more kids than expected in each home.  This has been a trend in some parts of the County.  Where the owner takes a SFH and converts it into an illegal accessory apartment and rents it to multiple unrelated families.

Impossible for MCPS to predict enrollment when this type of issue arises.  [/quote]

This is all of Twinbrook too.  Not even illegal multi family rentals.  Just literal multi extended families living in same house.  Even with driveways, there are nothing but cars parked on every single road.  [/quote]

This has been an issue in many neighborhoods in Montgomery County.  Some of the multi-family homes are legal, but many are not.

Montgomery County differentiates between owner-occupied homes, with multiple families and ones that are owned by someone who lives elsewhere, but rents to multiple families (definitely illegal to have an accessory apartment like that).

Unfortunately, the county either chooses not to, or doesn't have enough staff to enforce the zoning rules, so people get away with overcrowding these homes.  Definitely changes the feel of the neighborhood when you can't even drive down the street.

But, mainly it's an issue for parents in certain clusters because it affects school enrollment projections.  [/quote]

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