Hearst Playground story in Current

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Anonymous wrote:I think there is going to be an amphitheater where the portables are now.

Lots of stuff will need to be rethought, with puts and takes, if DPR is to squeeze all of the "proposed" program into the Hearst site.

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Anonymous wrote:Install an artificial year round turf field on the lower field and keep it full size with lines to play smaller perpendicular fields within it. Use organic fill rather than rubber crumb to keep,field cool during the summer. Take up the tennis courts and install pool with an adjacent pool house and small number of parking spots, with a community room part of pool house. Place new tennis courts running adjacent to the soccer field running north south. Place a dog park in the gulley that is the Idaho Ave area that is not a road, keep it more natural rather than the gravel parks. Keep all the healthy big trees and retain as much nature as possible, and get Casey Trees to come in and plant where needed. Casey is already planting the re-landscaped area around the school. Will be interesting t see what is put in the area of the rear trailers that will be removed eventually, but not really room for a pool there. Will be a great community asset if done with transparent public input and patience, just like the school that is now great.

This post nails it. Tremendous opportunity that will be a community treasure for generation to come.

Agreed.

I wonder how DGS will screw it up.

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Does anyone know when there is a public meeting about this? We are excited about it as a Hearst family that lives in the neighborhood.

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Anonymous wrote:I think there is going to be an amphitheater where the portables are now.

It is great that Hearst is getting an amphitheater. That will be great fun for the students. Who knew that DCPS has those as an option. That sure does highlight a vast range of amenities offered to schools. (And there is a bit of frustration in that comment. Happy for the students, but I wish the timetable for renovation of my ugly EOTP neighborhood school building from the 1970s doesn't keep getting pushed back. Whenever they do get around to renovating, we will have to push for an amphitheater on the vast space of land and see if that amenity can fit in the budget).

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I think there would be zero chance to create more parking off of Springland Lane. How much parking do you think will be necessary? When the high demand will take place, there won't be other primary uses for 37th Street.

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Anonymous wrote:I think there is going to be an amphitheater where the portables are now.

It is great that Hearst is getting an amphitheater. That will be great fun for the students. Who knew that DCPS has those as an option. That sure does highlight a vast range of amenities offered to schools. (And there is a bit of frustration in that comment. Happy for the students, but I wish the timetable for renovation of my ugly EOTP neighborhood school building from the 1970s doesn't keep getting pushed back. Whenever they do get around to renovating, we will have to push for an amphitheater on the vast space of land and see if that amenity can fit in the budget).

I don't think it's going to be a big ampitheater with rows and rows of seating - but to take advantage of the hill, there will be a place to teach/perform at the bottom and some seating on the hill.

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Anonymous wrote:I think there is going to be an amphitheater where the portables are now.

It is great that Hearst is getting an amphitheater. That will be great fun for the students. Who knew that DCPS has those as an option. That sure does highlight a vast range of amenities offered to schools. (And there is a bit of frustration in that comment. Happy for the students, but I wish the timetable for renovation of my ugly EOTP neighborhood school building from the 1970s doesn't keep getting pushed back. Whenever they do get around to renovating, we will have to push for an amphitheater on the vast space of land and see if that amenity can fit in the budget).

It's not just some EOTP school. Nearby John Eaton school keeps getting pushed back indefinitely in the renovation queue, even one school has had three renovations in a dozen years and another school's renovation has ballooned to nearly $200 million.

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Cleveland Park already has a community pool, at the Cleveland Park Club which is relatively inexpensive to join compared to most private pools.

The boundary for those who can join that pool and club is very small and exclusive. This is a public pool that would be open to the rest of us riff-raff.

The CPC pool is tiny.

How the the boundary "exclusive"? It includes McLean Gardens (which itself has a pool) as well as the apartment buildings along Connecticut and Wisconsin Aves. in the Cleveland Park area.

It may not be exclusive but it is not large. I live in Van Ness and cannot join the club, whereas I could certainly go to a public pool at Hearst.

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I can see it now, the Cleveland Park Club leaders opposing the public pool to protect their membership.

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Anonymous wrote:I can see it now, the Cleveland Park Club leaders opposing the public pool to protect their membership.

I doubt that very much. They would serve different purposes. Also, have you seen the club pool? You can't do laps in it. The Hearst pool would surely be used by people who also join the club pool for the other amenities the club offers.

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Cleveland Park already has a community pool, at the Cleveland Park Club which is relatively inexpensive to join compared to most private pools.

The boundary for those who can join that pool and club is very small and exclusive. This is a public pool that would be open to the rest of us riff-raff.

The CPC pool is tiny.

How the the boundary "exclusive"? It includes McLean Gardens (which itself has a pool) as well as the apartment buildings along Connecticut and Wisconsin Aves. in the Cleveland Park area.

It may not be exclusive but it is not large. I live in Van Ness and cannot join the club, whereas I could certainly go to a public pool at Hearst.

The Cleveland Park Club membership areas is pretty contiguous with the Cleveland Park neighborhood lines (i.e., the historic district) uet also includes McLean Gardens. But the pool is on the smaller size.

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Cleveland Park already has a community pool, at the Cleveland Park Club which is relatively inexpensive to join compared to most private pools.

The boundary for those who can join that pool and club is very small and exclusive. This is a public pool that would be open to the rest of us riff-raff.

The CPC pool is tiny.

How the the boundary "exclusive"? It includes McLean Gardens (which itself has a pool) as well as the apartment buildings along Connecticut and Wisconsin Aves. in the Cleveland Park area.

It may not be exclusive but it is not large. I live in Van Ness and cannot join the club, whereas I could certainly go to a public pool at Hearst.

The Cleveland Park Club membership areas is pretty contiguous with the Cleveland Park neighborhood lines (i.e., the historic district) uet also includes McLean Gardens. But the pool is on the smaller size.

Yes but the point is that the pool at the CPC does not fulfill the same need as a public pool at Hearst. Most of the people who live near Hearst (including me, 3 blocks way) do not qualify for membership at CPC even if we had the money to join.

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McLean Gardens has its own pool, and many, if not all of the buildings in Van Ness have their own pools. Many Ward 3 residents will also continue to maintain memberships at Montgomery County Community Pools because their kids participate in swim leagues. The traffic and parking issue will really be overblown by the local residents.

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Guys: local residents want the pool!

This is a fabricated controversy on DCUM.

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I saw the article and am thrilled. We live very close by, and this will be a fantastic addition to the neighborhood.