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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The survey wasn't a survey, it was a push poll. I live very close to Hearst and never heard of the survey until it was being touted as evidence of support. Given my location, it is weird that it somehow skipped my household and the ten other households around me. Not even close to scientific. And that's the problem with the pool supporters. They are like Mitt Romney in 2012 who was positive he was going to win because of the faulty data he was receiving.  If Cheh, Siegel and others move forward with this, it's an issue that will be pinned to their chest. There is growing outrage about this issue that is opening up a lot of resentment as people look around at a series of other decisions that seem to ignore l[b]ocal sentiment.[/b] [/quote]

Local sentiment is irrelevant when it comes to programming public space. If you don't like the prospects of a pool then move. There will be plenty of people lined up to buy your million dollar house.[/quote]

Local sentiment is not at all irrelevant, particularly among those who are the frequent users of the park.  It's interesting that the views of those close to Turtle Park as well as baseball team participants were considered as legitimate when they opposed a pool at that larger location, but somehow local users, including tennis players and youth soccer parents, are "irrelevant" when it comes to Hearst's fate.  Moreover, the pool partisans try to cite some push poll to make the case for local support when it suits them, yet categorically dismiss local concerns and growing opposition when it doesn't.

Most noteworthy, it is telling that pool advocates won't say where the proposed pool location would be at Hearst, presumably because they realize that opposition will grow significantly once people realize what will be sacrificed to build a pool.[/quote]

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