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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If Mary Cheh builds this pool at Hearst, it will only add to the growing animosity towards her.  This pool would destroy the park as it now exists, whether or not trees are turned into saw dust.

For nine months a year, the pool will be a fenced in eyesore.  The idea that building a pool will contribute to a revival of down on its heels Cleveland Park is specious on so many levels. Last time, I checked, it would be hard to find a house there for less $1 million.  There are tons of young families and lots more commercial activity on Wisconsin avenue and more coming.  [/quote]

No one has argued that the pool is going to turn around Cleveland Park so nice try conflating things but thinking about it now it really isn't a bad argument - aside from people taking their kids to Sidwell's Summer Camp there really isn't much reason to otherwise go to Cleveland Park or at least that stretch of Wisconsin Avenue right now so bringing some more people there in the summer could be a win win.

But your other two arguments are losers - you are not going to elicit any sympathy by your crying about the pool being an eyesore (boo hoo hoo poor neighbors of Hearst Park) and this has been argued ad nauseum but politically putting a pool in Ward 3 will probably be the best thing Mary Cheh can do to boost her popularity as parents are tired of wasting time in the summer going elsewhere to go for a swim - I wasted 45 minutes this weekend going to Francis when I could have biked to a Hearst pool in a quarter of the time.

If you neighbors would just be honest that you don't want more activity in your neighborhood and are scared the pool might attract people from other parts of the city we could have an honest debate about it and people would at least respect your point of view.  Instead we are stuck on this silliness about hydrology and Comrade Cheh and the aesthetic argument about looking at a locked pool.[/quote]

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