Arcpy Update Cursor (arcpy.da.UpdateCursor()) not saving changes to 'SHAPE@LENGTH'

Question

Looked around and found other Cursor questions, but nothing dealing with updating 'SHAPE@LENGTH'. I am running ArcGIS 10.2.1 and have a multipoint shapefile that I am grouping into polygons based on a shared attribute. However, sometimes only one point has the attribute and so a very tiny polygon is drawn, as described by the minimum bounding geometry documentation (http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.2/index.html#//00170000003q000000).

I wanted to loop through the new polygon shapefile and use Update Cursor to access the tiny polygons' Geometry ('SHAPE@LENGTH') and bump it up to a visible level. I am unfortunately not understanding something because the changes to the length are not saved. I figured it would be harder than just reassigning the area value, but so far I can't understand what is going wrong:

import os
import arcpy

# Point data directory
polyFiles = 'C:\Users\...polyFiles'

# Polygon file made from the points
boxes = os.path.join(polyFiles, 'OE_AK_poly.shp')

# If length is less than 1000m bump it up so it's visible on the map
with arcpy.da.UpdateCursor(boxes, ["SHAPE@LENGTH"]) as cursor:
    for row in cursor:
        if row[0] < 1000:
            row[0] = 1000
        cursor.updateRow(row)

Answer 1

In cursors, length is a read-only property.

I couldn't imagine what a predictable outcome would be for setting a new length of a line. Would it just extend the last point out in the bearing from the next to last point? What if it were multipart? Would it grow the entire polyline segment by segment?