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[quote=Anonymous][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]

I'm active with the DC Chapter of the Sierra Club and am confident they will not be jumping in on this or a similar type of case and am not aware of them doing so in the past 10 years either - its unclear what the grievance would even be here or their standing so maybe you can enlighten the rest of us.

I'm not as familiar with Casey Trees but don't recall reading about them every filing suit to fight something and again it is unclear what the grievance would be or why they would have standing - I understand anyone can file a lawsuit but most competent lawyers would advise either of these organizations that it would be a waste of time.

Again what is the problem?  No big oak trees have ever been slated for removal - to repeat this for about the 10th time in this thread the location of the current tennis courts at Hearst Park is well above the grade of and south of the line of mature oak trees at Hearst and below the grade of the lesser trees along Quebec Street.

Just put the pool where the barely used tennis courts are and there is zero issue with the trees and ample room for a nice pool and associated pool house.

And though it is the dumbest of the many lousy objections the neighbors have raised the pool there would be below the grade of Quebec Street and essentially invisible from the street so hopefully we would not have to hear any whining from neighbors about the horrors of having to see a shuttered pool facility off season.[/quote]

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