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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Ummm because they have repeatedly stated that they are proposing the same size pool as they have at Volta which you can clearly see in the satellite photo is about the same size as a tennis court.

Also they never stated that the soccer field was not drawn to scale - it is easy to see from their own drawing that it is to scale.

And re-read what I wrote or look at the drawings rather than making things up - no one said nor did any proposal show fitting a pool entirely within the space of single tennis court - the various proposal reduce the number of tennis courts by one but the pool is clearly larger than a single tennis court.

Rather than regurgitate anti pool talking points without having reviewed the plans spend some time looking at them so you can comment in an informed manner.[/quote]

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