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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And there is a campus. The stadium, the middle school, baseball fields, tennis courts and all the other buildings all in one sizeable contiguous area. Isn't that a campus to you?[/quote]

I didn’t post that but have been in the high school and understand what they are saying.  It doesn’t feel like a school. It feels like an office building.  Maybe this is what schools in cities are like.  For some of us that have been around a long time, it’s a hard adjustment from the old building.  It was old and needed to be knocked down but it had character and felt like a welcoming school.  This doesn’t. [/quote]

The decision to build the school the way it currently is was a long drawn out process over many years that was driven by the goal of getting developers to help pay the cost of the new school by selling part of the school property for mixed use development which also helps shift the tax burden in the city from mostly paid by residential taxes to more income from commercial taxes. This also included other commercial and mixed use development in other parts of the city and while the tax burden has shifted there is obviously a price to pay for that in aesthetics and the character of the school and of the city itself.  More high rises, more urban feel than previously, and obviously a much less sprawled out high school and middle school campus.  That actually started years ago when the middle school was designed as a four story building if you include the lower level.  Smaller footprints for the MS and HS means some room for sought after mixed use development right there by the metro station.  It has been challenging keeping FCC and/or the schools from being absorbed by Fairfax or Arlington but ultimately that's what the majority of FCC wanted and continues to want.  Shifting the tax burden was the best solution.[/quote]

Yes.  We are well aware.  As I said, I have been here a long time. I was at some of those meetings.  I understand the rationale.  It doesn’t change the feeling of the new building.   Some may like it but I don’t.  Personally, I think it would be a huge improvement to have FCCPS absorbed by FCPS, even with all of their issues, but that’s a different discussion.  [/quote]

I have often been confused over the many years this has been a topic of conversation, why don't those who want the schools absorbed by a nearby school district just go ahead and move over there?  Puzzling.[/quote]

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