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Originally Posted by MtnGoat
I'm sorry but a lot of people noticed around Fayetteville and the local area. Not one local news will say anything, but you talk to police officers, school officials, teachers and business; there was impact..........................
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Are they basing their observations on facts or projecting what they see around them to the nearest scapegoat BRAC?
Overcrowded schools? The overall school population for Cumberland County has remained pretty much stable over the last 17 or so years - 53,000 give or take a couple of thousand each year.
So how are schools overcrowded? Has to do with folks moving around in the County. The older subdivisions that were "middle class" in the 1960s, 70s and 80s (Lagrane, Devonwood, Loch Lomond, Waters Edge, Ponderosa, Foxfire, College Lakes, College Downs, Tiffany Pines and a host of others) have slowly transformed into rental/income subdivisions. The renters have come from the more central older neighborhoods closer to downtown - and bringing crime and drugs with them.
The hot spots have become the Jack Britt, Southview and Pine Forest HS areas. New construction has flooded the areas and the new subdivisions have flooded the schools. So not more students overall - just more students in a given area. Watch the fist fights between parents start when they build a new HS somewhere around Jack Britt and have to split it's school population.
Business? BRAC was occuring around the same time the OP TEMPO began to slow for major units on Ft Bragg. Business was pretty hit or miss from around 2004 to 2011 as a number of Brigades could be deployed. You might say we are returning to normal - not getting a kick from BRAC.
Just my observations.