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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DPR has finally put the recent meeting presentation on its website, with three pool siting alternatives.  My overall reaction is, for all this money and attention, DPR is proposing a very small pool, kind of a kiddie pool for adults.  For comparison purposes, the pool footprint is smaller than one tennis court and smaller than one of the penalty areas of the soccer field.  It's as if Cheh and DPR are going through the motions to say "Ward 3 pool.  Check."  There's a good question of whether it's worth the effort.  The three alternatives each have drawbacks.  #1 has the pool located directly alongside two tennis courts which doesn't seem optimal.  #2 puts the pool closer to 37th St and the parking area but shrinks the filed by putting it on a N-S orientation.  #3  puts the pool on the south side of the park but totally eliminates the shoulder/spectator area for the field.  If the pool stays small, the better option might be to move it  south of the small turf field, closer to the parking lot, thus leaving other areas of the park alone.  None are great options.  [/quote]

It looks like a 25-yard pool, which is pretty standard for outdoor DPR pools. For reference, a tennis court is 26 yards long. The proper size of the penalty area on a soccer field is 44 yards, so the drawing of the soccer field has been shrunk substantially to conceal the fact that the field has been shrunk substantially. The center circle should be 20 yards, almost the size of the pool. Overall the field looks to be about 75 yards long and 35 yards wide. Nobody out of elementary school would play on a field that small. The current field is one of only two WOTP that middle schoolers or high schoolers can use.

Whoever drew that doesn't know what a soccer field is supposed to look like. It's not long and narrow, it's supposed to be about 2/3 as wide as long. [/quote]

Very astute observations.

The other point to bear in mind is that the 'plan' options are not much more than notional sketches.  For example one of the options shows the pool in the footprint of at least one of the tennis courts, next to the tree line.  The large trees currently overhang the tennis courts in part.  Bear in mind that a pool obviously requires lots of excavation, so neither it nor the pool shelter can be built within the tree canopy drip line.  This means either that the pool cannot be at that location or that the nearby large oaks will be damaged and destabilized and/or will have to be removed.   Not to mention, locating the pool so close to the tree line, even if that were possible from a construction standpoint, would mean that the pool would be mostly in shade, which is not optimal for users.[/quote]

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