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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FCC resident here.  I'm getting the impression that most of the posters here have never seen Oak street or the Mt. Daniel campus.  It is nine acres at the top of a hill on North Oak street.  Approximately half of the homes at the beginning of this short street are in FCC, and the other half nearest the school (about ten to fifteen houses) are in Fairfax County.  These are the only homes impacted by the school.  The back end of the school backs up to a steep wooded hill, there is no access from the street on the other side of the wooded area (highland), and a good portion of the area is taken up by a pool, only utilized during the summer months.  The west end/playground end of the school abuts a wooded ravine.

It is an early elementary school, there are few evening activities, no sports, no lights or noise a night, etc.  The addition is is on the same footprint, and will add a second story to one portion of the school, to house one additional grade (2nd).

The alternative which some are suggesting, that FCC sell the land, would result in dozens of new houses and townhouses on the sight.  I know some of the residents on this street, both in FCC and Fairfax, and they prefer that the school remainrtather than go through the years of construction, and additional traffic, that sale of the land would bring.    [/quote]

So says the FCC resident who doesn't want to pay for a FCCPS school in FCC.   :roll:

N. Oak is a narrow, residential street that dead ends at Mt. Daniel, so there is but one way in and out of the "campus."  Expanding the school's footprint and enrollment as proposed will greatly increase the traffic on several streets in Fairfax County.  It will depress home values and the county gets nothing in return because it's a tax-exempt property.  The better solution would be to raze the school, build some tax-generating properties, and connect Oak to both Highland and Woodland to relieve congestion.

The fact that the school may not have as many "specials" as a high school doesn't change the fact that FCCPS wants to increase the traffic in the county neighborhood on a DAILY basis while school is in session.  And they want to do it because they are too cheap to build a school in FCC and don't want to inconvenience their own residents when they can disrupt a county neighborhood instead.

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