Mary Cheh has turned Cleveland Park/Cleveland Park North into her personal political asset

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Anonymous wrote:If you don't think that Mary Cheh's second job as a professor of law at one of the largest owners of real estate in DC GWU isn't a conflict of interest and doesn't result in favors for friends you're crazy.

Why do you think GWU allows this?

Dense growth is not as fashionable as it once was. She also wanted to cut up the field into little pieces until she heard from Stoddert Soccer told her to back off. She is a former official with Stoddert.

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They are putting artificial turf on Hearst field. No more natural grass. It's going to be so hot in the summer. What a tragedy. Goodbye nature.

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Anonymous wrote:They are putting artificial turf on Hearst field. No more natural grass. It's going to be so hot in the summer. What a tragedy. Goodbye nature.

That natural grass lasts for about 2 weeks due to normal use and poor maintenance. The grass fields are shut down for 5 months during the winter and then rain shuts them down another 2 months out of the remaining year. That's 7 months of no use by anybody. We'd all love pristine World Cup hybrid grass/synthetic fields where they are only used once a week but that's not the real world.

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Anonymous wrote:They are putting artificial turf on Hearst field. No more natural grass. It's going to be so hot in the summer. What a tragedy. Goodbye nature.

This is NOT breaking news.

DCPR installs turf fields so that they can be used year round and it apparently cuts down on maintenance costs. Watching the water flow out of Hearst Park, this is the LAST thing I would be worried about with this project.

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I agree last thing to worry about, but I liked Hearst green (grass). It was only used for informal soccer, but was a nice shaded park and a green space as noted. Mosquito infested due to the drainage... hope they can get a handle on that.

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When oh when will Hearst park be done?

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DGS website says spring 21. Was updated from summer 20.

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Anonymous wrote:I agree last thing to worry about, but I liked Hearst green (grass). It was only used for informal soccer, but was a nice shaded park and a green space as noted. Mosquito infested due to the drainage... hope they can get a handle on that.

Fake plastic grass covering a four acre field is an environmental disaster.

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Anonymous wrote:I agree last thing to worry about, but I liked Hearst green (grass). It was only used for informal soccer, but was a nice shaded park and a green space as noted. Mosquito infested due to the drainage... hope they can get a handle on that.

Fake plastic grass covering a four acre field is an environmental disaster.

I took a walk by yesterday and it is still 'soupy' as heck down there. Because the field is stepped down and has sloped sides, it has always been a little shady and dank. They are going to have to have incredible ongoing maintenance and drainage to keep the grassy swamp it was from turning into a really, really unappealing plastic swamp next to the swimming pool.

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Anonymous wrote:I agree last thing to worry about, but I liked Hearst green (grass). It was only used for informal soccer, but was a nice shaded park and a green space as noted. Mosquito infested due to the drainage... hope they can get a handle on that.

Fake plastic grass covering a four acre field is an environmental disaster.

The uber environmental types claim the opposite. The turf is constructed out of repurposed materials and no water or maintenance is required once construction is complete. This is the same crowd that wants you to stop cutting your lawn, raking the leaves or heaven forbid hiring a gardener.

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Anonymous wrote:I agree last thing to worry about, but I liked Hearst green (grass). It was only used for informal soccer, but was a nice shaded park and a green space as noted. Mosquito infested due to the drainage... hope they can get a handle on that.

Fake plastic grass covering a four acre field is an environmental disaster.

The uber environmental types claim the opposite. The turf is constructed out of repurposed materials and no water or maintenance is required once construction is complete. This is the same crowd that wants you to stop cutting your lawn, raking the leaves or heaven forbid hiring a gardener.

Don't we want "lungs" in the city (ie green space) so as to breathe?

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Anonymous wrote:I agree last thing to worry about, but I liked Hearst green (grass). It was only used for informal soccer, but was a nice shaded park and a green space as noted. Mosquito infested due to the drainage... hope they can get a handle on that.

Fake plastic grass covering a four acre field is an environmental disaster.

The uber environmental types claim the opposite. The turf is constructed out of repurposed materials and no water or maintenance is required once construction is complete. This is the same crowd that wants you to stop cutting your lawn, raking the leaves or heaven forbid hiring a gardener.

Don't we want "lungs" in the city (ie green space) so as to breathe?

I think that the environmental types (the same ones that want to ban your electric car because at the end of the day it is still...a car) would be happy with a wild grass field that was left alone and just grew or was a flooded bog. But they do not like grass fields that require lawn mowing, lining for sports, watering, heaven forbid fertilizing, or anything in general which allows the field to be enjoyed (mosquito spraying). So short of a wild grass field or bog, recycle artificial turf is actually their preferred route because it does not need any of the aforementioned services. Is it hot: yes. Is it smelly: yes. Will it get torn when people use equipment on the field that is not supposed to be on turf: yes. Will it be much more expensive to replace a few years down the road: yes. But in the meantime, you have no water bill and no groundskeeper hired.

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Anonymous wrote:I agree last thing to worry about, but I liked Hearst green (grass). It was only used for informal soccer, but was a nice shaded park and a green space as noted. Mosquito infested due to the drainage... hope they can get a handle on that.

Fake plastic grass covering a four acre field is an environmental disaster.

The uber environmental types claim the opposite. The turf is constructed out of repurposed materials and no water or maintenance is required once construction is complete. This is the same crowd that wants you to stop cutting your lawn, raking the leaves or heaven forbid hiring a gardener.

Don't we want "lungs" in the city (ie green space) so as to breathe?

I think that the environmental types (the same ones that want to ban your electric car because at the end of the day it is still...a car) would be happy with a wild grass field that was left alone and just grew or was a flooded bog. But they do not like grass fields that require lawn mowing, lining for sports, watering, heaven forbid fertilizing, or anything in general which allows the field to be enjoyed (mosquito spraying). So short of a wild grass field or bog, recycle artificial turf is actually their preferred route because it does not need any of the aforementioned services. Is it hot: yes. Is it smelly: yes. Will it get torn when people use equipment on the field that is not supposed to be on turf: yes. Will it be much more expensive to replace a few years down the road: yes. But in the meantime, you have no water bill and no groundskeeper hired.

I was OK with it being a sort of fallow boggy grass field that processed CO2 into O.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I agree last thing to worry about, but I liked Hearst green (grass). It was only used for informal soccer, but was a nice shaded park and a green space as noted. Mosquito infested due to the drainage... hope they can get a handle on that.

Fake plastic grass covering a four acre field is an environmental disaster.

I took a walk by yesterday and it is still 'soupy' as heck down there. Because the field is stepped down and has sloped sides, it has always been a little shady and dank. They are going to have to have incredible ongoing maintenance and drainage to keep the grassy swamp it was from turning into a really, really unappealing plastic swamp next to the swimming pool.

So now it's 2021, and as I walk by every morning with my pup, I see the clear cut hills, the muddy field, some construction where the tennis courts used to be, and a pvc pipe at the corner of Quebec and Idaho that spews water down the street 24/7. It's a mess. It's been a mess for the last year at least.

Fenced, ugly, unusable. Give me the old Hearst Park with scrub trees and soccer games any day.

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