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There's some slight of hand going on with the soccer field. As noted above, the lines were shrunk to conceal how small it is, in all options it is considerably smaller than currently, and not really a usable shape for soccer. The field is the same size in option 1 and option 3. They could have kept it the same size as it is currently in option 1, but instead they added a row of trees. I assume that was done so they could say that taking away a tennis court doesn't result in a bigger field.  Option 2 shrinks it even further.[/quote]

It appears that is a lot of slight of hand going on: with the soccer field, with the pool, with the trees. The site is just not big enough, and the right of way only allows access to the park off of Idaho, and adds land area to the project size in order to allow more of the park to be built out while complying with zoning. The soccer field as configured is much, much, much smaller. The pool does not show all of the vehicle access, pumping facilities, etc. and even as shown is much, much smaller than the current smallest pool in DC which is the Georgetown pool on Volta. Moving forward with any of these options is irresponsible from a planning, environmental and fiscal standpoint. [/quote]

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