tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6246743662284890173.post1689801805299316783..comments2023-09-16T04:58:07.261-04:00Comments on the Annandale Blog: Q and A: New housing projects and the impact on school overcrowdingAnnandale Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07543558586252790593noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6246743662284890173.post-90041605265485728742014-06-23T13:09:29.894-04:002014-06-23T13:09:29.894-04:00Why is this not part of Mr. Platenburg's conve...Why is this not part of Mr. Platenburg's conversations with the Seven Corners Task Force? See below:<br /><br />" The approximately 6,000 new residential units proposed are part of the Seven Corners Planning Study currently underway by Fairfax County and the Seven Corners Task Force. The Sears property is one development located in the larger Seven Corners Planning Area. Sleepy Hollow Elementary, Glasgow Middle and Stuart High schools would be the primary schools serving the new development. Some of the new development would also be served by Beech Tree Elementary School.<br /> FCPS is currently working with the County to evaluate the impact of the planned residential development on the school system and provide recommendations regarding school facilities. Preliminarily, FCPS anticipates the need for a new elementary school, additions to existing schools, and possible programming changes to accommodate the anticipated growth. While the most recent analysis provided by FCPS to Fairfax County was in April, 2014 (attached), review is still ongoing. FCPS is currently in the process of reviewing the draft plan text dated June 10, 2014.<br /> At the time a particular residential development proposal is initiated for rezoning, FCPS would again provide analysis on the impact to the school system and recommendations regarding school facilities. FCPS, with the support of the County, will look to developers for contributions to mitigate the impacts of their development. Such contributions may include land dedication for future school facilities and/or proffer fund contributions to be used in the construction/capacity enhancements of school facilities.<br /><br />Sincerely,<br />Jeff<br /> <br />Jeffrey K. Platenberg<br />Assistant Superintendent<br />Department of Facilities and Transportation Services<br />8115 Gatehouse Road, Suite 3300<br />Falls Church, Virginia 22042<br />jkplatenberg@fcps.edu"Mason Districthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00364201058329005162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6246743662284890173.post-35858173730008274652014-03-12T15:42:10.024-04:002014-03-12T15:42:10.024-04:00I am speechless. Apartment complexes expanding, co...I am speechless. Apartment complexes expanding, condos replacing bowling alleys... Any wonder why the inside the beltway schools are overcapacity? Any wonder why certain neighborhoods -- mine for instance -- are now in their third high school district in five years? Sheesh...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6246743662284890173.post-30779138816489244812014-03-11T07:49:05.671-04:002014-03-11T07:49:05.671-04:00We have already accepted our share and the share o...We have already accepted our share and the share of the rest of the Districts. Our schools are way over capacity our children are learning in crowded environment with kids who do not listen and whose parents do not care. Worrying more about the environment and not our children is unacceptable. New development is just inviting more boarding house issues and has not curbed the problem but has encouraged more of it. We need to enforce our housing laws in this County. This District is way beyond what we can handle with schools and infrastructure. CDnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6246743662284890173.post-49970247361254541012014-03-07T18:24:28.058-05:002014-03-07T18:24:28.058-05:00I don't see why we need thisI don't see why we need thisAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6246743662284890173.post-11015910359294403632014-03-07T17:28:25.989-05:002014-03-07T17:28:25.989-05:00New development is the only way to get the tax rev...New development is the only way to get the tax revenues to pay for services. Not allowing new developoment inside the beltway, especially in places with good transit (like Falls Church) or to get good transit (like Baileys) means those people will move further out instead, which will mean more impact on the environment. But we do need to give these new folks alternatives to the auto - more transit, more bike lanes - heck, lets start by getting sidewalks on all our main arterials. <br /><br />As for the tenement like overcrowding - thats not good for the FFX county budget, true, but its a rebalancing - FFX county was built to have few or no poor people - they were all to live in DC or Alexandria - now we are a more complete community, with more jobs and retail, but also more poor people too. The real answer is to end poverty with education and other programs, but as long as poverty exists, I think counties like FFX have to man up and accept our share of it. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6246743662284890173.post-38532744337994895432014-03-07T15:11:22.760-05:002014-03-07T15:11:22.760-05:00We need to either curb development or enforce ordi...We need to either curb development or enforce ordinances against overcrowding.Schools aren't the only systems affected by ill-considered building and near tenement-like overcrowding. Road systems are hammered with more traffic. The environment loses trees and gains more polluted runoff into the Bay. Neighborhoods are upended and noise pollution increases. $10,000+ a unit hardly compensates for these impacts. And what has all our development gotten us -- possible property tax increases on top of increases in assessments. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6246743662284890173.post-66622894227655290472014-03-07T14:42:43.274-05:002014-03-07T14:42:43.274-05:00Are our schools overcrowded because of modern day ...Are our schools overcrowded because of modern day misestimation, or because in the 1960s and1970s when almost no one with kids in Fairfax county lived in an apartment, it was assumed all those brand new garden apartments (they were new back then) would always be inhabited by singles, and now they are inhabited by multiple families - as immigrants no longer go to the central cities but come straight to the suburbs, and there is no where else for them to go? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6246743662284890173.post-4171063178003923132014-03-07T10:19:31.668-05:002014-03-07T10:19:31.668-05:00It's unfortunate that FCPS will not use a more...It's unfortunate that FCPS will not use a more sophisticated approach than a county-wide average for estimating the number of students. If you correlated the number of students to school test scores I'm sure you would find a higher number of students coming from apartments in school districts with the highest test scores. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6246743662284890173.post-1724872287475819852014-03-07T06:48:00.860-05:002014-03-07T06:48:00.860-05:00Annandale Blog, You did a fantastic job of intervi...Annandale Blog, You did a fantastic job of interviewing the Facilities person. You asked all the important questions. Obviously the County has done a terrible job of estimating the number of students that will be crowding into schools. They need to review their calculations because it's not working. Our schools are terribly overcrowded. Because our Board of Supervisors loves development, they lowball the number of students expected so that developers only have to pay a one time fee of$10,800. Then developers wash their hands of all the repercussions that unmanaged growth causes in infrastructure, traffic, and schools. Citizens need to demand to have the studies done that the facilities person admits has not not been done. <br /><br />Facilities said: "We have only broadly looked at histories of students by housing types. The accuracy of the estimated student yield using the county-wide average has not been analyzed in detail comprehensively."<br /><br />We need smart growth not dumb growth.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com