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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To no one’s surprise, very little change to Churchill under any of the options. [/quote]

I’m in the small part that is changing. It’s pretty nuts because I live in the area right by the Potomac Community Center. That part of Wayside has been Churchill since its opening. We are literally 1.7-2 miles from Churchill yet the four options have us moving to Wootton which is 15-20 minutes a day longer commute. Not to mention this brings the Wootton boundary so far south. Very disappointed mostly because of Wootton being incredibly old/asbestos, the aforementioned increased time, and the fact that our neighborhood is very much part of the community with Beverly Farms, Bells Mill, Potomac and Seven Locks ES.

A big chunk of Wayside was developed in the mid 90s and originally was meant to go to Frost and Wootton but due to overcrowding at both, they moved them to the then under crowded Churchill.

Additionally a huge section of Potomac ES would stay at Churchill and drive past much of Wayside on the way. Whereas those areas might be equidistant from each, they are far closer to North Potomac community wise and should look different.

They really needed to redo ES boundaries as some are quite wacky and massively large. Also whoever was bright enough to build both Cabin John and Hoover MS within a mile from each other made a big mistake. A MS up closer to QO/Wootton/Crown would have been so much better.

The MS to HS splits are going to be pretty messy from both under these options.
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That's not going to matter. Right now Fallsgrove is walking distance to Lakewood and Wootton but get bussed 15 minutes to Richie Park and Richard Montgomery. It's just the way ut is and always will work out that way for some neighborhoods close to certain schools but bussed to others.[/quote]

Fallsgrove was part of a land sale deal which was contingent on this community never going to Wootton. No idea of the reasoning but this was the deal. [/quote]
I read somewhere Fallsgrove went to Wootton like 30 years ago? (Can't remember precisely.) [/quote]

Fallsgrove was built in 2002. During pre-build it was preliminarily zoned for Wootton but before anyone moved in it was moved to RM cluster. Meeting minutes from a 2000 city council meeting show tge council was concerned about overcrowding at Wootton due to Fallsgrove but other new communities have been built since and zoned into Wootton so it makes no sense. All of the new neighborhoods zoned into Wootton after Fallsgrove are farther away to the school than Fallsgrove is.

City Council minutes January 2000:
https://www.rockvillemd.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/2868?MOBILE=ON

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The Mayor said she had concerns about the school issues because it was clear Wootton High School could not absorb the population projected for Fallsgrove. However, if the Montgomery County Board of Education decides the students in Fallsgrove should go to Richard Montgomery High School and the staging of the development corresponds to either the building of a new RM or its substantial renovation, this issue could be very successfully resolved."

The Millenium Trail literally goes through/connects Fallsgrove to Lakewood and Wootton via the city's biggest bike/walking path but the kids get bussed to Ritchie Park, JW and RM when they could be walkers to elementary and high school.
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Oh yea the ole bait n switch. I remember this clearly. Buy a new home into a W school district!!  Then as the plots were sold and the houses were built they were like welp, sorry. We are gonna bus you further to a crappier district and you already lost 10-20% of your home value. People were spitting mad.

And for the people claiming they prefer RM must only be renters because Fallsgrove, Potomac Woods, Horizon Hill, Orchard Ridge, etc.. would see an increase of 50-100K on their homes value if they were moved back to Wootton.  [/quote]

Wootton is a fake W school. Much like Rockville, the school was originally strictly middle-class and working-class white families and was not at all socio-economically aligned with the other Ws. Then eventually, a lot of Asian families moved in and the test scores of the school increased, attracting more UMC families.

It’s not all that different than RM, which has a similar history but then saw an influx of buy in after the magnet program became successful and made it a top 10 school, attracting a lot of new UMC families to the area.

$100k is not a huge price difference, especially considering the price difference between homes zoned for Churchill and Wootton is much, much larger than $100k. [/quote]

You need to look further at the types of houses for the potential socioeconomic levels. Newer SFHs are generally UMC and expensive. In the current RM boundary, the newer SFHs are in Rose Hill/Rose Hill Farms and Fallsgrove. There are UMC families in older SFHs around RPES  (e.g., Falls Orchard, Horizon Hill). There are also large SFHs in West End that were build from tear-downs. King Farm also has some nice larger SFHs. Then there are a number of pricier townhomes in Park Potomac, Fallsgrove, and King Farm. Other than that, MOST of the homes in the RM boundary are older 1950s-1970s homes. These older homes are usually smaller and not as expensive. Twinbrook and Hungerford are great examples for these homes. There are a number of apartments (new and old) all over. Now look at the current Wootton boundary. For apartments, there is the Rio area, but also some of the townhomes there are expensive. There are really not many other apartments in the boundary. There are a number of townhomes, especially right across Wootton Parkway. While these are older 1970s (1980s?) homes, they are generally pretty nice. The rest of the boundary has large, single family homes, and many of those are post-2000. There are a lot of McMansions. The older homes often have a good amount of land, too, and many have been renovated or added onto. There is just so much UMC potential there vs. within the RM boundary. SO I would say these are really very different. Wootton had much more undeveloped land that got developed into larger and pricier homes.[/quote]

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