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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think people are not having as many children, nationwide, in general.[/quote]

It depends.  Recent projection was that within ~10 years over 40% of HS grads in the U.S. will have Hispanic background.   However all children born in the Americas will be outnumbered 10:1 by the children born in India and China.  Locally there will not be any low enrollment numbers, as long as Arlington builds more and more condos and apartments.  Doesn’t matter whom they’re geared to, there are many single parents with kids moving in, especially if they’re subsidized.[/quote]

A lot of people who live in single family homes think no one with a family would live in an apartment, but we know many, many families that do. And they are market rate apartments. These are people that could buy a single family further out, but choose to live in Arlington in an apartment.[/quote]

Interesting. I don't believe APS factors market rate apartments and condos into their enrollment projections. In the past, few if any families with kids lived in those buildings, since they were not developed nor marketed for families. And, many townhouse developments along the Orange Line have 2 bedrooms (the large ones have 3) and were never marketed for families. [/quote]

We know about 20 families who live in nice apartment buildings in the Clarendon corridor with 2 kids at least that are marketed to singles supposedly. Arlington does not care or even know.  They are bad planners and worse projectors. Completely out of touch with reality. [/quote]

If the developers only knew this, they would plan for and design more family-oriented apartments/condos in all these high rise projects popping up. It’s crazy that middle class families are squeezing into one bedroom apartments marketed to 20-somethings.[/quote]

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