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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What I find really rich is the insistence that Ward 3 has to have its own pool, and then a PP grandly cites tennis courts that are in other wards altogether, as supposed substitutes for tearing out the perfectly good tennis courts that are there today at Hearst! (Rose, Volta, Carter Barron, Hardy for example).[/quote]

Ummm no it is the anti-pool advocates who've come up with a bunch of hypocritical and contradictory positions.

If it is ok for pool users to have to drive to a pool then should it not be ok for neighbors of Hearst to drive to a tennis court - courts that in this case are much closer than any comparable pool.

If this is really about the environment or the Soapstone watershed then surely the purpose of this entire process should be to restore as much of that watershed as possible and in that case then the logical place to start would be by restoring Hearst Park to its original state right?

The Hearst neighbors only care about the environment to the extent that it gives them reasons to oppose any change to what they consider to be their own private park.

The Hearst neighbors only believe other people should have to drive to recreational resources, not themselves - that is environmental hypocrisy!

The Hearst neighbors can point out how many pools there are in DC but chafe when someone points out that in fact there is an excess of tennis courts in their immediate neighborhood.

So is it do as I say not as I do?[/quote]

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