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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I bridged the Yorktown island and gave Yorktown a few additional units along the west county border but stopped at Route 50. I gave Wakefield Ft Myer and some units around the east end of Columbia Pike.

I moved 1302, 1303, 1304, 2312, 2313, 2314, and 2401 to Yorktown.

And I moved 3706, 4611, 4612, 4614, 4691, 4815, 4816, 4818, 4828, 4829, and 4899 to Wakefield.

I ended up with most year capacities under or close to 102 with only a couple years at 104 but that was my highest in any school. My goal was to end up with sustainable numbers and with my boundaries they all looked pretty good (104 or less) four years out.
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I know you got the capacities close to 102 but isn't it farther for the planning units you selected to get to Wakefield?    Or were you looking at other criteria as well and not just the capacity issue?[/quote]

Yes, Ft Myer and some of those are closer to WL but the problem I found with simply shifting the closer planning units from WL to Wakefield (ie the ones south of 50) is that some of them are huge. You can begin and end the redistricting just by selecting a couple of these but then you end up splitting up those neighborhoods in that WL pocket south of 50 and the way the numbers per unit sorted out you'd either be way under or over capacity at Wakefield. That's why I started playing with the ones on the eastern side. They are also smaller numbers which means fewer buses. Those kids are so far from all the schools which are to the west of the county that they are going to be bused no matter which school they attend.

I found it frustrating that the existing Rosslyn island wasn't in play. I kept wanting to shift those kids around in ways I think would benefit everyone but for some reason they can't be touched.[/quote]

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