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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I thought a bunch of people actually did leave the public schools, which were becoming more and more overcrowded?  But that now some kids were starting to return?

If you add even more kids without fixing the underlying overcrowding problems, where does that leave us?

(What is the solution to the high school overcrowding problem if you think it's fine to add more kids?  School board has been clear that there's no land to build another comprehensive high school.  School board has previously floated having virtual classes and having a two-schedule system where some kids come into school in the mornings and others come in in the afternoons.  Does anyone actually WANT that?  It's such a rich county and we're threatening our educational system with this ridiculousness wut?)[/quote]

Missing middle isn't adding kids over night.  So let's all take a deep breath.

Do you get this upset when new condo buildings are being built?  Because those add MUCH more density, much faster than anything missing middle will add.

Last, absolutely bring your concerns to the county board, and ask them to work with APS to alleviate high school crowding.  Complaining here does nothing.[/quote]

I actually got more upset over condos being built and went to complain to the county board about it about 7 years ago -- that they weren't adequately accounting for kids being added to the schools.  I don't really know how I feel about missing middle tbh - [b]desegregating the county would be good honestly.[/b]  But the schools are a problem and the county board is just ignoring the high school issue.[/quote]

Yes, indeed it would. But more housing won't do that. On the other hand, schools could do more to de-segregate if they really wanted to and if the County and APS worked together and committed to developing the efficient and sufficient transportation system a ranked-choice school system requires.  But they don't want to.[/quote]

Doesn't missing middle actually address this a little?  Maybe not right now when the units are brand new as rentals, but won't they maybe be rented at less in 10 years and encourage non-high income people to move in?  That's what the pro-missing middle people say, anyway.  Otherwise isn't Arlington just always going to be an area where pockets of land way over there are for low income people and it's usually not right next to the $2M houses?[/quote]

That's what MM proponents say, yes. But I'm not buying it for an instant. Until substantial amounts of true affordable housing is built in north Arlington (Washington Blvd northward, especially Langston Blvd) the segregation will persist. Where do you think the cheaper MM housing (multiplexes) is more likely to happen:  south Arlington SFH neighborhoods that already have old, small, run-down SFHs and townhouses and duplexes on parcels that cost less; or SFHs in north Arlington that are sprawling lawns and only SFHs - maybe a few nicer townhomes - where each parcel costs more to purchase? Developers aren't going to seek the most expensive parcels to build multiple units. They want to purchase for less to maximize their profits.[/quote]

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