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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I disagree with your ideas about reconfiguring the field on an east west axis.  Excavating the west slope with a tall concrete retaining wall would be a disaster, and moving the field would result in the loss of large trees on the east side.  However, you may be on to something in the NE corner of the park.  At a minimum, a pool could go on the upper flat area in the location where the basketball court and a portion of the eastern part of the playground are.  That portion of the playground area could easily be moved to the site of the former portable classroom building, next to the school.  This location also has the advantage of access, particularly for those with mobility problems.  It would have easy access to the parking lot, which is lightly used during summer months when the school is not in session and the pool would be open.  And no Park green space is sacrificed.[/quote]

Why would a retaining wall be a disaster?  It is not even clear it would be required and there is no reason the fields would impact the line of trees on the east side.  Again this is a large space they have to work with.

No reason to further muddle things going into Hearst's space - there is plenty of space in the park itself and no reason to add something to what is already the actual intensely used part of the site.[/quote]

I've lined the field at Hearst. There is about 60 yards of width before you run into the hill in the southwest corner and the trees on the east side. Length is about 105 yards. You'd have to do major earthmoving to keep the field dimensions and rotate it 90 degrees.

There's a reason all of the DGS "concepts" were not-to-scale.[/quote]

Yes.  It would be awful (and very expensive) to see the slope along 37th Street turned into a 'bathtub wall', akin to the large concrete retaining structures that one sees where interstate highways cut through hillsides.  [/quote]

That's absurd and hyperbolic - there are retaining walls throughout the neighborhood that look nothing like what you see along a highway.  But let's keep scaring everyone, especially when most people aren't paying attention.

And the slope isn't that great anyhow - looking at the current configuration you could shift the soccer field a bit to the east and easily have space to the west of the field for tennis courts.[/quote]

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