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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sending western half of VM to WJ without neighbors doesn’t make sense. It creates an island for WJ. We are blocked off by the CSX tracks from the rest of WJ. For community cohesiveness they should keep us with the eastern part of VMES and the area north. This is one reason why I, as a VMES parent, support superintendent recommendation to send us to Woodward.[/quote]

Though it isn't an island, as both sides of the CSX tracks are zoned to WJ there. And WJ has extended east of the tracks into Kensington for decades.[/quote]

It is. I live there. We are blocked off my the tracks from Garrett Park/Garrett Park Estates. You have to traverse several miles to get to them. It is effectively an island. Or call it a wall.  That’s very different than the other area you’re referring to which is actually connected by the roads![/quote]

That’s true. From a transportation standpoint it isn’t like a bus could pick up kids from western part of VM and then just go directly to GP. They’re blocked off by several miles of circuitous path.[/quote]

From a community standpoint there is a path at GP Road and people can walk between the neighborhoods but for bus transportation it is more cut off.  A lot of these neighborhoods that are so close to each other were designed to be insular. You can’t get out to CT from the VMES east section for no obvious reason. There is only one way to get from the VMES east area to the Rock View neighborhoods even though they’re right next to each other and don’t have RR tracks between them. The streets just don’t go through and wind around until you’re somewhere else in the neighborhood.[/quote]

A long uphill path through woods. I hope they keep us in VM together at Woodward. Don’t want to be the island.[/quote]

But the railroad tracks separate you from Woodward just the same as WJ.[/quote]

It is close to impossible on this thread to distinguish from real VMES community concerns (and I am sure there are some quite valid ones) and that WJ poster that posts here all the time pretending to be VMES. Usually his hatred for Farmland shows in his posts and unmasks that he has no connection to VMES.  [/quote]

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