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Looks like the rate of growth is being addressed by school and town officials.
Article One The Wake County school system may revive a practice in which new subdivisions being built near crowded schools would be reassigned to more distant schools that have space.
Article Two Town leaders may shoot down plans for a subdivision in western Cary because they say the area’s rapid growth is overburdening roads and schools.
Ugh. This is what drove me away from Wake County several years ago.
I'm not crazy about spot nodes, but what else can be done? We cannot put double the number of kids into one school just to keep them near their homes in an area that's expanding at a nearly alarming rate..
Once things settle down and schools are built to accommodate the crowds, things will move back into something more reasonable.
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Can they require the developers to allocate space for a school?
That makes way too much sense Want to build a neighborhood? Fine, build a neighborhood school as well! Or, if the development you are building would only fill 30% of a school than pay for 30% of the school. I do not know what kind of profits builders are making though to know if this is truly feasible but something needs to be done
impact fees were ruled unconstitutional (NC constitution) more than 5 years ago now. I'm no legal scholar, so I can't say whether that's good or bad.
But someone is allowing them to develop - and probably rezone for density - without regard to the strains on the #1 item on the county budget. Schools.
The irony.... in the mid-1980s, one subdivision developer in north Raleigh reserved a tract for an elementary school and then had a devil of a time getting WCPSS to take him up on the offer. It took years of public pressure before Lead Mine Elementary was built on the tract. Go figure.
impact fees were ruled unconstitutional (NC constitution) more than 5 years ago now. I'm no legal scholar, so I can't say whether that's good or bad.
But someone is allowing them to develop - and probably rezone for density - without regard to the strains on the #1 item on the county budget. Schools.
Ugh. This is what drove me away from Wake County several years ago.
what choices is your preference?
1) Reassign existing students in a shool when a new development goes in to make room for new students.
2) Assign new students from a new development to a school that has room to accomodate them.
3) Completely uncouple where you live in a district from where your kids go to school.
4) Restrict development.
I assume you like #4 best since you moved to chapel hill.
I'm not crazy about spot nodes, but what else can be done? We cannot put double the number of kids into one school just to keep them near their homes in an area that's expanding at a nearly alarming rate..
Once things settle down and schools are built to accommodate the crowds, things will move back into something more reasonable.
I agree. I don't see much other solution.
People who already live in the area get to stay. They don't get pushed out. So simple even a 5 year old can see the fairness of it.
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Want to build a neighborhood? Fine, build a neighborhood school as well! Or, if the development you are building would only fill 30% of a school than pay for 30% of the school. I do not know what kind of profits builders are making though to know if this is truly feasible but something needs to be done
