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1.  You say that the site is "walkable for thousands of families."  How does that square with citing "the few who live right there"?

2.  DC has a system of neighborhood parks -- e.g., [b]Palisades, Friendship/Chevy Chase, Macomb, "Turtle" Park,[/b] etc.  While each is open to all and serve a broader community through use of fields by sports teams and so forth, they also serve fundamentally neighborhood-oriented needs as well.  Shouldn't the views of those who regularly use the fields or the tennis courts or just enjoy sitting under a large, shady tree be given some distinct weight as well?  I don't notice the frequent users of the above parks clamoring to sacrifice recreational features of their neighborhood parks for a large ward pool.  It's very easy to be a YIMBY -- "Yes, in your back yard!" -- when someone else is impacted or is forced to sacrifice what is important to them.[/quote]

Between Cleveland Park and North Cleveland Park, there are thousands of people who would use the pool. There are a handful of people who live on Quebec and Idaho who are "right there" Some of them support a pool, some are willing to fight it vigorously. I hope people who support this will be willing to show up at what I assume will be numerous public meetings to keep DGS and DPR on track to do this. If the city and Councilmember wanted to put more pools in at the other playgrounds listed, I would support it. I don't think Macomb is big enough; at Turtle Park, the baseball lobby trumped the pool supporters and Palisades isn't exactly central to the Ward or anyone other than the people who live there.[/quote]

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