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[quote=Anonymous]Cheh has a credibility problem with Hearst Park.  Last week's NW Current quotes Cheh and her staff stating that no National Park Sevice-owned land can be considered as possible alternative sites for a pool because NPS said no to any use or transfer for a pool.  (Various DC-operated recreational facilities, including in Ward 3, are located on NPS land.)  Yet Tom Sherwood reports in the same issue of the Current that Mayor Bowser is asking NPS to tranfer extensive park holdings to DC.  These include 190 acres adjacent to the RFK site, not just for recreational purposes, but for a new stadium, housing, retail and other economic development purposes.  She also asked for the transfer to DC of other properties, including Franklin Sq. and three golf courses owned by NPS (on one of which DC wants to have developers put housing and "amenities").  If the mayor thinks that NPS would [b]transfer [/b]park land and open space for[b] development[/b], you'd think it would be somewhat more plausible that NPS would consider [b]use [/b]by DC for[b] recreational purposes[/b]  like a pool (as it has in the past).

Cheh is either disengaged or disingenuous.  You decide.[/quote]

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