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The Fairfax County School Board (FFCSB) seeks approval to provide an additional public-use trailer as a temporary classroom at Cedar Lane School. The school is located at 101 Cedar Lane SW and is further identified as Fairfax County Tax Map Parcel 49-1-(2)-3.
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Town of Vienna Council will consider a Fairfax County School Board (FFCSB) request to provide an additional public use-trailer as a temporary classroom at Cedar Lane School. The school is located at 101 Cedar Lane SW and is further identified as Fairfax County Tax Map Parcel 49-1-(2)-3.
The property is zoned RS-10 and RS-12.5. The school is a special education school for grades 9-12. Due to recent increases in student enrollment for school year 2016-17, a public-use trailer is needed to provide additional instructional space. The application was filed by Paul A. Scott on behalf of Fairfax County Public Schools, owner.
It should be noted that many of the students have significant behavioral issues that have resulted in numerous police calls. Below is incidence data logged by the Town of Vienna Police Department over the last few years. Police are dispatched to the school for a wide range of events; most require that the police department send two officers for officer safety reasons Apparently there are three such schools in the county with similar student populations; these schools each have County Police assigned. It appears that some of those students from other schools have been moved to Cedar Lane. More Town police services may be needed to deal with any program increase. Here are the number of calls for service to Cedar Lane School over last three years:
2013 - 75
2014 - 58
2015 - 55
2016 - 42 YTD
Required Board Approvals
Per Town Code Section 18-152.2-A&B-Public use trailers and manufacturing
The Town may initially approve trailer use for three years and then provide two-year ...
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