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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's also indoor.[/quote]

But it's also available year-round.  It seems boneheaded to lose a playing field that is used 7 0r 8 months out of the year, as well as tennis courts that are used almost as long, for a facility that will be open (assuming adequate operating funding year to year) at most 3 months out of the year.[/quote]

I don't live near Hearst so I don't really have a dog in the fight, but as a rational person I am annoyed by the argument that there has to be a pool at Hearst because there is no "outdoor pool" in "Ward 3." Indoor pools are adequate substitutes for outdoor pools. [b]Ward boundaries are imaginary lines. It's the kind of argument you come up with if you start with the conclusion and then work backwards developing reasons[/b].[/quote]

Not to mention that with the relatively large population growth in Ward 2 over the past several years, the next ward realignment could well result in Ward 3's boundary being moved slightly south.  So Jelleff might shift from Ward 2 to Ward 3, and Ward 3 will wind up with its own swimming pool after all.  And basically cost free![/quote]

Wow this is maybe the dumbest argument against a pool yet in this thread - maybe DC will be retroceeded to MD too.  The point isn't to have an outdoor pool in each ward - the point is to have a pool that everyone can easily get to.  Sure if you live in the southern part of Ward 3 you are sort of close to Volta today but most of Ward 3 is nowhere close to Volta or any other public swimming pools.  If you live in Ward 3 you should not have to spend 50 minutes on public transportation or 25 minutes in a car getting to a DC Public swimming pool - you should have one in your neighborhood like most other DC residents have.[/quote]

It's the pool boosters who have been making the argument that Ward 3 needs an outdoor pool. It's a dumb argument.

A more convincing argument would be to say that DPR wants every DC resident to be within X miles of a pool, and a pool at Hearst would mean that Y thousands of households who currently don't live that close to a public pool would now have one. That's a rational argument -- and it's a lot more thoughtful than "Ward 3 needs an outdoor pool." But it requires thoughtful analysis, which seems to be in short supply at DPR.[/quote]

In fairness to DPR staff, they will say candidly in conversation (and basically said publicly) that they had nothing to do with choosing Hearst Park as the site for an outdoor pool, pool house, etc.  That's all on Cheh.   The analysis, to the extent that there's been anything meaningful, doesn't support Hearst as the best site.[/quote]

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