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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Destroying a park? That is your opinion.

Would have been great to be able to walk to a pool last week and weekend.[/quote]

Wilson pool  is within walking distance and there are private swim club pools within walking distance from Hearst as well.  There are two public outdoor pools a 10 minute drive or bus ride just down Wisconsin Ave. How entitled then to demand yet another public pool, especially when the price is paving much of a quiet, green park.[/quote]

Status quo is KILLING Cleveland Park. The service lane, the restrictions on establishments, the chronic NIMBYism is simply killing the area. It is time for the old timers to understand, this isn't 1972 or 1950. [b]People want to be able to walk to things and have gathering places. Hearst can have all of the things that make it great today - the trees, the grass field, the playground, the basketball court and tennis courts, as well as an outdoor pool where people can gather in evenings and weekends, stay cool and hang out.
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It is just the purely selfish old timers who are fighting this. The Mayor wants it, DPR wants it, the Councilmember wants it the ANCs want it and it is just a handful of crotchety old fogies who probably have pools in their backyards who are opposing this on purely selfish grounds. Keep fighting it, all you are doing is making it easier to recruit the proponets.

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So please, please, show us how we can eat lots of cake and lose weight at the same time.  Unless you envision a tiny kiddie pool, please explain how Hearst users will see the large tree canopy preserved and also enjoy the full sized grass field, the playground, the hoops court and the tennis courts -- and an outdoor pool.  None of the DPR sketches showed how this is possible, and that's with DC conceding that the plans were simply indicative and didn't include the full dimensions of the pool, surrounding deck, pool house, equipment shed, etc.

As for the mayor, in response to questions on the Hearst pool at a community forum a while back, she made it very clear that this is Mary Cheh's baby, not hers.  And if waiting for a Hearst pool or a service road is "killing" Cleveland Park, it seems that neither the real estate market nor the DC tax assessor have gotten the memo.

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I have seen credible to scale drawings that show how everything can fit but I don't care if they don't - sacrifice the damn tennis courts to make room for the pool.  There are numerous tennis courts throughout Ward 3 and they are all lightly used and on a per capita square foot basis a terrible use of scarce DPR land.  I've got kids and have already been to the pool (in Bethesda where we pay every time we go) 5 times this summer and the pool is jammed with people. A pair of tennis courts on the other hand are usually serving at most 8 people but almost always just 4 people but often no one at all as my experience is that the tennis courts are often unused but in a best case scenario that space is serving very few people when it is a tennis court.

And yes I'd also sacrifice a mature tree or two to make space for an outdoor pool - trees, especially old ones, do die and can also be replaced.   For whatever it matters DC planted 8,000 new trees this spring.[/quote]

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