Planning Commission 03/12/2025 - Mar 12, 2025
meeting
Prince William County Planning Commission
4h 42m
6 speakers
8 agenda items
transcribed 7 days ago
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What is the opening agenda and who introduces the school capital improvement session?
Good evening everyone. We're here for the work session with the Prince William County Schools tonight for their capital improvement um plan. So whoever is here from the Prince William County Schools, we thank you in advance for coming and the floor is yours. And then we'll start presenting. Oh, okay. Oh, they're online. Okay.
I'll introduce myself in the error of my name is Dave B. Hi, my name is Dave Beavers. I'm with the budget department over at the school board. Um we're working with our uh cohorts in facilities, uh facilities planning, and they'll be presenting the first portion of this evening's uh uh description of our capital improvements program and I'll do the second half the part that does uh the fun part with the money. Okay.
Thank you so much.
Yeah, good evening everyone. Thank you for attending this evening. I'm Dr. Dirk Hartley. I'm joined by Dave Beavers and other colleagues, Scott Halsey. We're gonna go ahead and pick up our slide deck presentation.
We're gonna need you to speak up, please.
Of course, be happy to do so.
Thank you.
So the outline for tonight's presentation, we're going to go over enrollment trends briefly, as these are the same slides that the Planning Commission was previously briefed in December by my colleague Scott Halsey. We'll then move into the approved and proposed CIP for schools related to new construction, other capacity enhancements, renovations, and maintenance, and then Dave Beavers will will bring us home with the discussion of budget related matters. The trends that we first reported in the FY2529 CIP continue to exist for Prince William County. The components of population change affecting our K-12 enrollment are primarily related to decreasing birth rates as well as selective out migration to areas of the DC exurbs further south to the Richmond Metro and
to southern growing metros, including Raleigh Durham and the Research Triangle. It's important to be mindful of these trends as these are what feed into our population forecasting model and then our CIP is derived from what the model suggests. This population pyramid gives you a visualization of the current state of enrollment in Prince William County schools. The key takeaway here is that the cohorts in the upper grade levels are significantly larger than those that would be progressing upwards over the next several years. If all other variables were held constant, you know, no future residential construction. no in migration, then as a result, our K twelve enrollment would decrease as these smaller cohorts replace larger ones.
The uh slide here that's probably of great interest to the Planning Commission is related to future residential construction and how associated student yields are factored into our enrollment projections. Uh, we collaborated with some of the planning staff in the county to revise the projection model. Uh previously, a top-down approach was taken to projecting future. future housing construction, which would cap the number of units built into the model each year to the average of what had historically been observed. What is key and different now is that there's a bottom up approach with each development under construction, the number of units that it builds per year, those figures are used to be extrapolated into the out years as that development is built out in the model.
The other key takeaway that I think we all should be recognize is that No longer are future construction units only consisting of projects that have rezoning approved. In this model and moving forward, those in the development pipeline that are yet to receive rezonent approval are now being built out into the projections primarily through years four to six and on.
When we focus on the K twelve enrollment. With the projections, all these components of population change, factoring in, projected yields from future residential construction. The model suggests that over the next five years, PWCS will experience decreasing enrolment with an estimated decrease of about thirty seven hundred students by twenty twenty nine thirty school year.
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Agenda
8 items
1
What is the opening agenda and who introduces the school capital improvement session?
1:54–26:58
2
How are enrollment trends and future student projections presented and explained?
26:58–1:07:23
3
What new school construction, renovations, and budget impacts are outlined in the CIP presentation?
1:07:23–2:00:35
4
How do commissioners and the public discuss and vote on the substation public‑facility review and affordable‑housing ordinance?
2:00:35–2:40:31
5
What concerns are raised about added density and its impact on neighborhoods?
2:40:31–3:20:16
6
How does the board explain the bonus‑density provisions and the rezoning process?
3:20:16–3:59:47
7
What motions and votes are taken on the Affordable Dwelling Unit ordinance?
3:59:47–4:33:11
8
How is the remote‑participation policy reviewed and adopted?
4:33:11–4:42:40
Speakers
6 identified
Qwendolyn N. Brown 83 min
Blake Ross 15 min
Karla Justice 8 min
Dalia A. Palchik 3 min
Sylvia R. Glass 1 min
Tom Gordy 1 min
Officials recognised by voice; public commenters shown as “Speaker N” unless they state their name.