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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The point is the water sale didn’t create a timber lane island. Boom, facts.[/quote]

You seem to think an island existed simply because the Timber Lane area is on the other side of Route 7. The boundaries still would have looked odd given the then-existing boundaries of Falls Church City, but I don’t think it was literally an “island” until the area on the other side of Route 7 near Haycock Road was transferred to FCC.  [/quote]

The land that was sold didn’t have any homes on it and is closer to Shrevewood ES than Timber Lane ES. The Giant strip mall across from the land that was sold is still Fairfax County.  I guess we would have to look at an old map to see for sure but, from the ground, the timber lane area is always an island because of the commercial area and major road between it and the rest of the McLean area.[/quote]

Hi, fellow geography buff.  You are right - given how the boundary maps are drawn there is a small area off Shreve between the Timber Lane island and the main McLean attendance area zoned to Marshall, not that it really matters because it’s a commercial area that could be zoned to either school without impacting the enrollment.  So the effect of the later land sale to FCC wasn’t to create the island so much as make it appear further out in the ocean, so to speak.

In any case, the board minutes suggest the intent at the time (in 1984) was just to reduce the enrollment at Falls Church and increase the enrollment at McLean and Marshall (the Timber Lane island moved to McLean at the same time as the area off Route 29 just to the west moved to Marshall), not to advance a particular goal in terms of demographics. Of course, things change over time, and it’s now McLean and Marshall with larger enrollments than Falls Church. [/quote]

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