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So seed a new HS with kids from Herndon, Westfield and South Lakes. Move part of Centreville to Westfield, part of Chantilly to Centreville, part of Oakton to South Lakes, and part of Langley to Herndon.

So, you want to play fruitbasket turnover? Move lots of kids unnecessarily when they are currently fine where they are?

FCPS should build the new school at the first available location where sufficient land can be assembled, adjust the boundaries as needed, and tell people like you that you can leave if you can’t deal with it. They identified the need for an additional high school years ago.

That is a terrible location for a high school for any kids and for the community. The traffic patterns are terrible and almost all the students would still be coming from the other side of the toll road. But, it is clear why you want it. You revealed it in your plan. Why would you build a new school for kids to relieve schools that don't need relief and disrupt them. Any time there is a change there is disruption. This would disrupt twice as many people for no good reason. And, unlike fruitbasket turnover, this is not a game.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

So seed a new HS with kids from Herndon, Westfield and South Lakes. Move part of Centreville to Westfield, part of Chantilly to Centreville, part of Oakton to South Lakes, and part of Langley to Herndon.

So, you want to play fruitbasket turnover? Move lots of kids unnecessarily when they are currently fine where they are?

FCPS should build the new school at the first available location where sufficient land can be assembled, adjust the boundaries as needed, and tell people like you that you can leave if you can’t deal with it. They identified the need for an additional high school years ago.

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So seed a new HS with kids from Herndon, Westfield and South Lakes. Move part of Centreville to Westfield, part of Chantilly to Centreville, part of Oakton to South Lakes, and part of Langley to Herndon.

So, you want to play fruitbasket turnover? Move lots of kids unnecessarily when they are currently fine where they are?

So seed a new HS with kids from Herndon, Westfield and South Lakes. Move part of Centreville to Westfield, part of Chantilly to Centreville, part of Oakton to South Lakes, and part of Langley to Herndon.

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Anonymous wrote:Hutchison is NOWHERE near Centreville or Chantilly HS. Maybe they could take some of EC Lawrence park land and build a high school.

Hutchison has no redeeming qualities for a new high school. The neighborhoods who are closest are: Herndon; South Lakes; and Westfield. They'd have to take those neighborhoods from South Lakes that they fought so hard to get.

There are neighborhoods along Lee Highway near Centreville that border Centreville High School, and get sent to Fairfax--read the comment section in the boundary survey--many comments that their kids should be at Centreville or Chantilly, and not Fairfax.

The Hutchison site makes no sense. It appears that some want it there because it would take some low income kids out of Herndon High. The irony, of course, is that the new Metro will increase higher income people in that corridor. I suspect that the current Hutchison neighborhoods will get rebuilt and renovated.

When Herndon/Langley boundaries were set, Herndon had nowhere near the low income kids it does now. Neighborhoods change.

Anonymous wrote:Hutchison is NOWHERE near Centreville or Chantilly HS. Maybe they could take some of EC Lawrence park land and build a high school.

Anonymous wrote:I think the issue with Clifton ES was there was no municipal water at the site-it was on well water? I think ?? Seems like a simple enough problem to solve.

They can’t build on the Hutchison property but on the other side of the toll road from Hutchison they can. It’s vacant land and parkland over there. The county has taken park land and built schools on it in the past so I can see them doing this.


Where? Frying Pan Park?

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Anonymous wrote:Will people volunteer for their houses to be condemned at a different location?

If they build at Hutchison some of the houses around the school would likely be taken in eminent domain. That land would be needed for the larger building and for parking as well.

I don’t know how many of the houses are occupied by renters vs. owners. Presumably those holding the houses as investment properties wouldn’t fight selling them, and if that’s most of the neighborhood then easily done.

If the county is worried about traffic they could use some of the purchased land to cut another road.

They can’t build on the Hutchison property but on the other side of the toll road from Hutchison they can. It’s vacant land and parkland over there. The county has taken park land and built schools on it in the past so I can see them doing this.

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Anonymous wrote:Will people volunteer for their houses to be condemned at a different location?

If they build at Hutchison some of the houses around the school would likely be taken in eminent domain. That land would be needed for the larger building and for parking as well.

I don’t know how many of the houses are occupied by renters vs. owners. Presumably those holding the houses as investment properties wouldn’t fight selling them, and if that’s most of the neighborhood then easily done.

If the county is worried about traffic they could use some of the purchased land to cut another road.