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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If a Ward 3 pool is truly needed, why not consider the vacant land directly across Fort Drive/parking lot from Alice Deal middle school and outside Ft Reno Park?  It's car and Metro accessible, walking distance from existing schools and rec facilities (including the all-weather Wilson pool), more centrally located in Ward 3 and wouldn't sacrifice any school or park facilities like sports fields, tennis courts or playgrounds.  [/quote]

National Park Service owns/controls that space. Non-starter for a DC pool.[/quote]

But see the posting above.[/quote]

Whether or not it is part of Ft. Reno proper, it is Park Service land. The Murch Elementary School modernization process is a great example of how inflexible the Park Service is about use of these parcels, unfortunately.[/quote]

It's not that the Park Service is inflexible, it's just that DCPS lacks focus/competence to see it through.  I can see the Park Service being resistant to using its land for a parking garage or a school building, but there is lots of precedent for using Department of Interior/NPS land for DC recreational/sports uses, ranging from RFK to Murch playground to UDC fields.  [/quote]

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