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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Residents of AU Park wanted a pool. The baseball people killed the idea.

Palisades isn't centrally located.
There isn't a location that is owned by DPR to put a pool.
Chevy Chase could be an option, either at Lafayette or the Chevy Chase Community Center, but those renovations are far off and no one has proposed it for whatever reason.

People in the other neighborhoods you listed would love to have a public pool. Maybe someday, someone will propose putting one there. So far that hasn't happened. What has happened is that someone is proposing to put one at Hearst, and a lot of people love the idea.[/quote]

And a lot of people don't, particularly the most frequent users of Hearst park -- whether the playground, the soccer field, the tennis courts or the green spaces.  Save it, don't pave it.[/quote]

There really isn't evidence that a lot of people don't want a pool at Hearst except for the immediate neighbors.   I know this is hard for people who live in Cleveland Park to understand but Hearst is public property - you may think it is your own local Gramercy Park but it is not.

And for what it is worth Hearst is a very central location for a pool in Ward 3 and accessible via a number of means - someone forwarded me a document that the anti-pool folks put together recently showing all of the places a pool should go instead in Ward 3 and it is a laughable document - only two of the locations are central to the Ward with good public transit options (Ft Reno and the trailhead to Battery Kemble) and almost none of their proposed locations are owned by the District to say nothing of DPR.

Let me repeat this for the immediate neighbors - you do no not own Hearst Park, it does not exist exclusively for your benefit and you do not have nor deserve any greater voice over what happens to it and this should be obvious as well but you are not entitled to your own facts either.[/quote]

You're asking the wrong question. The question isn't whether people want a pool, it's whether they would be willing to lose one of the existing features at Hearst in exchange for a pool. Because in all of the proposals, something gives.[/quote]

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