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I'm not sure you are right about that.

1. Mary Cheh is a former Stoddert Soccer official and will do anything they ask. For instance, she wanted to put the put the pool on the field until Stoddert told her not to.

2. I think Stoddert would want turf because - if history is precedent - that field will be a mess within a couple of months. [/quote]

There was never a serious plan to have a pool supersede a regulation size field at Hearst. There were some early schematics that showed a smaller field, but the pool was always going to go where it is.

The field should have been turf, but the doggie lobby wanted grass. It's a shame for the amount of money being spent to have it be a mud bog again by September.[/quote]

You are absolutely 100 percent wrong. The initial plan was to put the pool on the field. The debate was where it would be placed on the field.  I was at a meeting at the DC public library in Chevy Chase where Mary Cheh endorsed putting it on the field on the side closest to Phoebe Hearst School. She liked that idea because it was the furthest location from some houses on Quebec St. There is no dog lobby. Dogs are not allowed on the field.  It was Stoddert lobbying Cheh - a former Stoddert official - that got the pool moved to the upper area. You know that. The pool is in the right place now. The field was saved at the expense of a couple of tennis courts. [/quote]

I think I attended all of the meetings and that is provably untrue - in fact it took me about 10 seconds to find the slide deck:

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/575de9411bbee04cda4bdff0/t/5a1eed03e2c483b8c7c57996/1511976321188/Hearst+Community+Meeting+Slide+Deck+11-16-17.pdf

The initial proposal looked at 3 locations for the pool, all of which would have retained a soccer field but 2 of the proposals would have reduced the size of the field.  Since the neighborhood has a plethora of lightly used tennis courts including several in the immediate neighborhood and the tennis courts were already hardscaped there really wasn't a lot of debate about which location was the best for the pool except from some neighbors who were making stuff up about how well used the tennis courts were.

Cheh by the way bends over backwards to never stick her neck out in public for much of anything and publicly always defers to the planning professionals when there is a process though maybe behind the scenes she put her finger on the scale.

I also don't know what you are talking about WRT to Stoddert - I am 11 years into having kids playing both travel and rec soccer with Stoddert and have occasionally had some rec soccer games at the field but we also go to kick the ball there on the weekend and that field sees more action from dogs than soccer players most weekends which isn't a surprise because the field was always in terrible shape and was muddy even several days after rain.

I can tell you with confidence that if Stoddert (or even DPR) were calling the shots that field would have turf on it and I suspect that in this instance it is grass because Cheh actually did intervene behind the scenes to mollify the NIMBY neighbors.[/quote]

The only thing you proved was that the field was a leading candidate for the pool - complete with drawings. That is exactly what I was saying. Cheh publicly endorsed putting the pool as far away from the neighbors as possible. She did that a public meeting where neighbors were complaining about the pool being 50 feet from their front doors. She was trying to appease them. It’s really time for Cheh to go. I wish people would show up
To vote.[/quote]

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