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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's always easier to stop something that let it go forward. If she comes out for the pool before the election she loses. So many people in her area are against it. [/quote]

An ANC has 2000 plus or minus a handful. Except for the 20 or so people who live on idaho and Quebec, everyone else is for it. Everyone in my area of Porter, and my neighbors on Ordway all want it. We are in Margie's SMD. Everyone on her street wants it too.

Really, you are living in a bubble if you think "so many people in her area are against it."

So many people in her area fully support it and want it to happen post haste.

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If it were that simple, but it's not.

I don't live that close to the site, and probably wouldn't use a pool much (but my kids do use the field) -- so I don't have the biggest dog in this fight.  But DC's planning process, whether at the ANC level, the zoning commission or whatever, accords some greater weight to those who live closest to a proposed project.  It doesn't mean that those voices necessarily win, but the rationale is that they are the residents most likely to be affected and to bear the greatest impact.  In this case, one can presume that those who live closest to the park are among its most frequent users (and therefore will lose if the field and tennis courts are cut),and those who live in closest proximity are likely to bear the impacts of the pool:  loss of shade and green space, construction noise, dust, parking, etc.   One thing I've discovered is that it's always easy to be a YIYBY, to say about a project, "Yes, if it's in your back yard!"  In other words, the farther away one lives from the impacts, one can enjoy all the benefits without having to worry about the costs.  [/quote]

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