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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If it were redeveloped, there would be lots of mixed use.  Which means apartments where poor people might live.  And the poor people would send their kids to the local schools.  The rich wealthy people do not want this.[/quote]

Yup. [/quote]

McLean is full of apartments and condos with low income kids who are already in the schools. The only difference is that most of the low income kids are mostly Asians because the elementary schools feed into Longfellow Middle School which at one time had a good admission rate to TJ.  Not sure how popular those buildings will be now that TJ has skewed its admittance policies.  But kids can still go to McLean or Langley which are both good schools.  [/quote]

McLean downtown has one? Apartment building and it is filled with retirees.[/quote]

There are eight apartment buildings or condos in downtown McLean.  The building you might be thinking of is McLean House.  It was once filled with retirees but now has many investors who rent the units to people who want their kids in Longfellow Middle School for a path to TJ or -- at worst -- McLean High School. The apartment and condo buildings off McGarity and Anderson also feed into Longfellow making them highly desirable.   Again, if more multifamily housing comes to McLean, it will have striving immigrants rather than poor people who drag down the schools -- unless Fairfax County makes the developers make some of the units affordable to those with 40% to 60% of Median Income.  If they use McLean, that will be a very high number.  If they use Fairfax County, you might actually get some poor people in the buildings.  [/quote]

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