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This is one of the few full-sized fields around, and the tennis courts are heavily used.  I don't see where the pool can go, unless these resources are thrown away.  I agree that the upper portion is pretty tight, but is there anything else planned for where the temporary building is now?  That could be "found space."  The other question about a pool that is going to attract a lot of users is parking.  The streets surrounding the park are parked full during the day and even on weekends the spots fill up with constant Stoddert soccer league games.  I guess that the Hearst school parking lot could become the pool lot after school hours and in summer.  There's no other spot on the parcel to add parking.[/quote]

The pools around the city are only open during the summer. Usually there isn't school in session or Stoddert soccer taking place. As such, with the broad stretch of 37th Street, there really shouldn't be a parking issue. Plus, I would guess most of the heavy users will be the people who live in that immediate North Cleveland Park area. McLean Gardens has its own pool, as does Cleveland Park (Club).

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BTW, the "broad stretch" of 37th St. is likely to be reconfigured by DDOT (narrowed in places, speed bumps, curb extensions, raised crosswalks more parking restrictions), as part of the planning process to address the traffic from both Hearst and the expanded Sidwell campus.  So don't assume that all of those parking spots will necessarily remain.[/quote]

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