Hearst Playground story in Current

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:From Mary Cheh's bio

Mary is a former member of the Murch after-school board, a Stoddert soccer coach (and a licensed referee), and member of the Stoddert Board.

Not to mention a committed central planner (as long as it is her plan), with a neo-Stalinist view of democratic participation.

[Anonymous]

HUUUUUUGEE conflict of interest. I don't care if she is no longer on the board.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:HUUUUUUGEE conflict of interest. I don't care if she is no longer on the board.

Do you know what an actual conflict of interest is?

[Anonymous]

Oh. My. God.

Are you people out of your minds?


Nobody gives a damn about children's soccer. Sorry, I know you think it's the most important thing the world, but I promise you this: your child *isn't* going to play in the Olympics, *isn't* going to get a soccer scholarship to college, and *is definitely* going to bore the bejesus out of everyone you're related to!

Get. A. Life.

[Anonymous]

Apparently not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh. My. God.

Are you people out of your minds?


Nobody gives a damn about children's soccer. Sorry, I know you think it's the most important thing the world, but I promise you this: your child *isn't* going to play in the Olympics, *isn't* going to get a soccer scholarship to college, and *is definitely* going to bore the bejesus out of everyone you're related to!

Get. A. Life.

@Get. You may be right about children's soccer, but a lot of folks don't want the park concreted over for a pool, either.

[Anonymous]

And a lot of folks want a pool. So there.

[Anonymous]

1) Mary Cheh is a former board member of Stoddert
2) Stoddert wants to pave over Hearst for soccer fields
3) Mary Cheh personally chose Hearst to be paved over for Soccer fields

Definition of a conflict of interest:

1.A situation that has the potential to undermine the impartiality of a person because of the possibility of a clash between the person's self-interest and professional interest or public interest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1) Mary Cheh is a former board member of Stoddert
2) Stoddert wants to pave over Hearst for soccer fields
3) Mary Cheh personally chose Hearst to be paved over for Soccer fields

Definition of a conflict of interest:

1.A situation that has the potential to undermine the impartiality of a person because of the possibility of a clash between the person's self-interest and professional interest or public interest.

Che still has yet to show her plan. What DPR says is that a pool, deck and pool house will need approx. 2 acres. The park is 4 acres at most. So depending on where the pool is sited, the playground, tennis courts or the field itself may be impacted. Hearst may be paved, but in concrete not rubber.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And a lot of folks want a pool. So there.

Didn't the Casey Trees Foundation 2015 annual report card state that DC needs to take aggressive steps to preserve District-owned park green space and park tree canopy as a top environmental/conservation priority?

"We ask Mayor Bowser to:

Adopt a 50 percent canopy goal for all Department of Parks and Recreation managed properties.
--Initiate a planning process to create designs for neighborhood parks that incorporate more trees and better growing spaces, make parks safer and increase use.
--Prepare and execute an Open Space Plan that increases residential connections to city greenspace as called for by the Sustainable DC Plan.
--Place conservation easements on city-owned greenspaces to ensure they remain green for the continued benefit of future generations of Washingtonians."

Paving over two acres of Hearst Park for a pool (and the likely loss of mature oaks) would run contrary to this goal.

[Anonymous]

Increase Use equals program activities that draw people to a park and actually use it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And a lot of folks want a pool. So there.

Didn't the Casey Trees Foundation 2015 annual report card state that DC needs to take aggressive steps to preserve District-owned park green space and park tree canopy as a top environmental/conservation priority?

"We ask Mayor Bowser to:

Adopt a 50 percent canopy goal for all Department of Parks and Recreation managed properties.
--Initiate a planning process to create designs for neighborhood parks that incorporate more trees and better growing spaces, make parks safer and increase use.
--Prepare and execute an Open Space Plan that increases residential connections to city greenspace as called for by the Sustainable DC Plan.
--Place conservation easements on city-owned greenspaces to ensure they remain green for the continued benefit of future generations of Washingtonians."

Paving over two acres of Hearst Park for a pool (and the likely loss of mature oaks) would run contrary to this goal.

Casey Trees is not without an agenda of its own.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And a lot of folks want a pool. So there.

Didn't the Casey Trees Foundation 2015 annual report card state that DC needs to take aggressive steps to preserve District-owned park green space and park tree canopy as a top environmental/conservation priority?

"We ask Mayor Bowser to:

Adopt a 50 percent canopy goal for all Department of Parks and Recreation managed properties.
--Initiate a planning process to create designs for neighborhood parks that incorporate more trees and better growing spaces, make parks safer and increase use.
--Prepare and execute an Open Space Plan that increases residential connections to city greenspace as called for by the Sustainable DC Plan.
--Place conservation easements on city-owned greenspaces to ensure they remain green for the continued benefit of future generations of Washingtonians."

Paving over two acres of Hearst Park for a pool (and the likely loss of mature oaks) would run contrary to this goal.

Casey Trees is not without an agenda of its own.

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Absolutely. They advocate restoring the city,s tree canopy to improve air quality, save energy, manage storm water runoff and enhance natural habitat, especially for birds. Improving the tree canopy

[Anonymous]

..Through sound natural resource management and conservation easements on DC owned parks is an important part of this. Am increase in asthma among youth in DC has tracked the decline in the city's tree canopy over the last Six decades. When it come to Hearst Parkland, it's better to save it than to pave it.

[Anonymous]

Cheh = Stoddet = self interest