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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Any of the neighbors on the pool want to take a stab at explaining how adding a pool will take away the park from future generations? I for one would love to know."

If you build a pool in the middle of the field.

* Where there is now an open green space 12 months a year, you erect a high-fenced cement pool and patio and pool house that will only be used three months a year.

* You eliminate a much needed, and in demand field as a regulation soccer field.

* You dramatically reduce the amount of space for young soccer players who can play multiple games simultaneously.

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Now we are in a fact free fear mongering zone which is no surprise but there has never been a proposal to build the pool in the middle of the field or to eliminate the soccer field at all - [b]option two slightly shrinks the currently non-regulation soccer field [/b]while the other two options came at the [b]expense of a single tennis court [/b]while leaving 2 lightly in demand courts.

So no elimination or drastic reduction in field space for soccer.

This is also a good time to remind the fact free neighbors that Stoddert is not opposed to a pool at Hearst but that Stoddert simply expressed a desire to maintain a soccer field at the park which DPR does in every proposal.

So no adding a pool will not take the park away from future generations.

Next?[/quote]

Without scale drawings, i.e., without rough dimensions, how can you say that the option 2 "slightly shrinks" the soccer field?  And for other "options," how is it possible to build a swimming pool, pool house and surrounding pool deck within the footprint of "a single tennis court," unless the proposal really is to build a kiddie wading pool?!

Facts matter.[/quote]

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