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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“The Falls Church island (aka the "Timber Lane island") was created when Fairfax County swapped land with Falls Church City in exchange for what had been the Falls Church City water authority (which supplied water to, and gouged, some county residents).  When that area got transferred to FCC, it created an island south of the expanded FCC borders.”

I don’t think this is accurate. There was a Timber Lane island before the sale of the water system and the land that was sold is where Meridian is - it isn’t where the timber lane area is (timber lane area is across Broad Street).[/quote]

When you sell land on one side of Route 7 you create an island on the other side. [/quote]

Pedantic.  Island or peninsula, we all know that it isn’t a compact attendance area.  The question is whether it is appropriate.  I think the answer is yes, as it is an easy way to get even a bit of demographic balance.  Timber Lane to McLean is 4.2 miles.  For reference, it is 7.7 miles from the Great Falls library to Langley.[/quote]

The part of Timber Lane now at McLean was moved from Falls Church to McLean in 1984, at a time when FCPS was making county-wide boundary changes and McLean was under-enrolled.  Timber Lane was already largely minority at the time but there’s no indication from the board minutes it was specifically moved to McLean to add diversity.  Rather, it seems they just wanted to balance school enrollments. Other Falls Church areas got moved to Marshall and Stuart (now Justice), and Falls Church picked up an area that had previously been at Oakton.  [/quote]

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