Hearst Playground story in Current

[Anonymous]

It's better than Ward 3's 82,000 residents driving to other wards or to Maryland to swim.

And with respect to Cheh, she listened to her constituents who, for 12 years, have asked for a pool. She is delivering. Let's make this a campaign issue, if you want to try to get Petar Dmichev to switch his position and oppose the pool (he told me he was for it) - I am sure such a strategy would capture the 50 households against the pool versus, what was that number you cited, 82000?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:May Chen has done more damage to ward 3 with I know what’s best” approach to governing. She is such an abrasive stilted person. How did she even get elected? The only people who defend her are her developer friends.

OMG there is probably nothing she could do to boost her popularity more than finally getting a pool in Ward 3.

And what are you talking about when it comes to developer friends? Hardly anything is getting built in Ward 3 - if any developers gave her money they should ask for it back.

How many of Ward 3's 82,000 residents will fit into a pool that is smaller than a tennis court? She didn't think anything through. She just saw an open field and thought, "Good place for my pool." She didn't see what many of us see, which is a heavily used green space. Hearst field is used every day of the year by residents and every weekend by soccer teams during the warmer months. A pool will only be open three months a year, eight hours a day. The rest of the time it will be an eyesore with a foot of green algae at the bottom.

Twelve years ago, Cheh knocked on my door and asked for my vote. She hasn't been back since. She is a diffident incumbent, who doesn't care a lick about what her constituents think. She wraps herself in the "smart growth" mantle but that's just propaganda for her developer friends. It's not smart and its not growth. Wisconsin Avenue is still under performing economically after more than a decade of Cheh's "I know what's best" approach to governing. She has become horribly out touch - but not apparently with developers. Oh, and thanks for the giant homeless shelter in a ward with the lowest rate of homelessness in the city. Mary Cheh needs to step down. Time for someone with fresh thinking and who is not entrenched - to take her seat.

Wait - are you suggesting we need a pool that can fit all 82,000 people who live in Ward 3 at once and anything less than that would be insufficient?

[Anonymous]

No. I’m suggesting that will be able to fit all of Cheh’s supporters in the next election because we she is an arrogant out of touch friend of developers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No. I’m suggesting that will be able to fit all of Cheh’s supporters in the next election because we she is an arrogant out of touch friend of developers.

If she were out of touch, there wouldn't be a proposal and funding for a pool.
If she were a friend of developers, we would have had a lot more development in Ward 3.

Fail on both counts. You may want to get help for your bitterness.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:May Chen has done more damage to ward 3 with I know what’s best” approach to governing. She is such an abrasive stilted person. How did she even get elected? The only people who defend her are her developer friends.

OMG there is probably nothing she could do to boost her popularity more than finally getting a pool in Ward 3.

And what are you talking about when it comes to developer friends? Hardly anything is getting built in Ward 3 - if any developers gave her money they should ask for it back.

How many of Ward 3's 82,000 residents will fit into a pool that is smaller than a tennis court? She didn't think anything through. She just saw an open field and thought, "Good place for my pool." She didn't see what many of us see, which is a heavily used green space. Hearst field is used every day of the year by residents and every weekend by soccer teams during the warmer months. A pool will only be open three months a year, eight hours a day. The rest of the time it will be an eyesore with a foot of green algae at the bottom.

Twelve years ago, Cheh knocked on my door and asked for my vote. She hasn't been back since. She is a diffident incumbent, who doesn't care a lick about what her constituents think. She wraps herself in the "smart growth" mantle but that's just propaganda for her developer friends. It's not smart and its not growth. Wisconsin Avenue is still under performing economically after more than a decade of Cheh's "I know what's best" approach to governing. She has become horribly out touch - but not apparently with developers. Oh, and thanks for the giant homeless shelter in a ward with the lowest rate of homelessness in the city. Mary Cheh needs to step down. Time for someone with fresh thinking and who is not entrenched - to take her seat.

You pool opponents are thrashing back and forth with contradictory arguments that undermine yourselves. One post complains the pool will be too small to be meaningfully, smaller than a tennis court. The next post will complain that the entire park will be paved over. Which one is is?

[Anonymous]

Both.

It's infrastructure week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No. I’m suggesting that will be able to fit all of Cheh’s supporters in the next election because we she is an arrogant out of touch friend of developers.

If she were out of touch, there wouldn't be a proposal and funding for a pool.
If she were a friend of developers, we would have had a lot more development in Ward 3.

Fail on both counts. You may want to get help for your bitterness.

The Mary Cheh Kiddie Pool at Hearst will not work for Ward 3 shoe-horned into the location at the foot of two steep slopes. Nutty.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:May Chen has done more damage to ward 3 with I know what’s best” approach to governing. She is such an abrasive stilted person. How did she even get elected? The only people who defend her are her developer friends.

Commissar-Professor Che(h) always knows what is best for you. She's always the smartest one in the room. It's Cheh's way or the highway, comrade.

[Anonymous]

I hadn't paid much attention to hydrology concerns that some people have mentioned, and how those would impact a pool and vice versa. But this weekend, I was surprised by the appearance of "Lake Hearst", a large pond of standing water along 37th Street, especially south of the playground. Clearly some expert studies need to be made, lest the problem gets worse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No. I’m suggesting that will be able to fit all of Cheh’s supporters in the next election because we she is an arrogant out of touch friend of developers.

If she were out of touch, there wouldn't be a proposal and funding for a pool.
If she were a friend of developers, we would have had a lot more development in Ward 3.

Fail on both counts. You may want to get help for your bitterness.

she is pro-development which she calls "smart growth."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No. I’m suggesting that will be able to fit all of Cheh’s supporters in the next election because we she is an arrogant out of touch friend of developers.

If she were out of touch, there wouldn't be a proposal and funding for a pool.
If she were a friend of developers, we would have had a lot more development in Ward 3.

Fail on both counts. You may want to get help for your bitterness.

she is pro-development which she calls "smart growth."

In her honor it should be called "Lake Cheh at Hearst Park."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's better than Ward 3's 82,000 residents driving to other wards or to Maryland to swim.

And with respect to Cheh, she listened to her constituents who, for 12 years, have asked for a pool. She is delivering. Let's make this a campaign issue, if you want to try to get Petar Dmichev to switch his position and oppose the pool (he told me he was for it) - I am sure such a strategy would capture the 50 households against the pool versus, what was that number you cited, 82000?

Why is driving to other wards so terrible?

The way some posters on this thread write, you'd think there are checkpoints at the ward boundaries where we need to show our papers and apply for a visa. There are lots of places in Ward 3 that are a lot closer to other wards than they are to other parts of Ward 3. The whole "Ward 3 pool" argument just drives me crazy. If you live in Glover Park, Georgetown is closer than Cleveland Park. If you live in Chevy Chase, Ward 4 is closer than Hearst.

[Anonymous]

The thread that will never die. I knew it would be back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's better than Ward 3's 82,000 residents driving to other wards or to Maryland to swim.

And with respect to Cheh, she listened to her constituents who, for 12 years, have asked for a pool. She is delivering. Let's make this a campaign issue, if you want to try to get Petar Dmichev to switch his position and oppose the pool (he told me he was for it) - I am sure such a strategy would capture the 50 households against the pool versus, what was that number you cited, 82000?

Why is driving to other wards so terrible?

The way some posters on this thread write, you'd think there are checkpoints at the ward boundaries where we need to show our papers and apply for a visa. There are lots of places in Ward 3 that are a lot closer to other wards than they are to other parts of Ward 3. The whole "Ward 3 pool" argument just drives me crazy. If you live in Glover Park, Georgetown is closer than Cleveland Park. If you live in Chevy Chase, Ward 4 is closer than Hearst.

It’s a matter of equity. Other wards have had the privilege of outdoor pools for decades.

[Anonymous]

They don’t need to build a pool at Hearst. People can swim in Lake Cheh.