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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would love to live across the street from a pool.

Why is this seen as a negative?[/quote]

DC does a poor job maintaining its facilities and the pools it has. There is often trash around, the trash cans don't get emptied with any regularity, they don't keep the facilities clean and working well, if there are a hundred people at a pool and it is literally across the street from your house, which is would be for some people who live on Quebec/35/36th if they site it on the tennis courts, there will be 50+ cars parked around your house and the noise from all the people in the pool all day long. Because despite people saying they will walk to the "neighborhood pool," it has not been my experience that people end up walking even if they can. Maybe they have good intentions of doing so, but then they look at the bags of towels, sun screen, pool toys, snacks, drinks, changes of clothes etc., that they want to bring and decide it's easier to drive.  [/quote]

It's not so much the idea of a pool operating in the summer that bothers close-by residents and park users.  It's the thought of a concrete and cyclone-fenced complex replacing existing park facilities and green space and then sitting closed, fenced and empty 9 months out of the year.  Who wants to look at a concrete and steel pen for blown leaves and trash, when today there's a leafy, green park?  Most of the year, it would be a big, ugly waste.[/quote]

Got it.  Thank you for confirming that the ground water concerns and magic oak trees are red herrings.[/quote]

The big oak trees are not red herrings.  If any are slated for removal, hands down there would be legal action by Casey Trees and the DC chapter of the Sierra Club.[/quote]

And they will lose that lawsuit and, ironically, kill many more trees in the process. [/quote]

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