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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Make an offer to Sidwell as they add and renovate their grounds -- city will build all year pool at Sidwell  provided there is open access all summer.  Unlucky private partnership.[/quote]

What problem does this solve?  There is room at Hearst for a pool and the real opposition from the neighbors is about [b]increased activity in their otherwise quiet corner of Cleveland Park [/b]which a pool at Sidwell would not resolve.

And there is an "all year" pool available already in the neighborhood - what Ward 3 is lacking is an outdoor pool.[/quote]

Of the 'wrong' people....[/quote]

So which is it?  We keep seeing bleats about poor Ward 3, which is so deprived because lacks its "own" outdoor pool when every other ward in DC has one or more.  But then proponents hint darkly that it is Hearst park champions who somehow are being exclusionary.  (Have you ever seen Hearst during soccer seasons?  It's hardly some quiet corner!). In any event, if every other ward is already aquatically well-endowed, who exactly would a Hearst pool draw??[/quote]

You must not get off of Quebec street much.

Kids from throughout the city come to Tenleytown every day to attend Deal/Wilson/GDS/Sidwell and the outdoor pool season overlaps by more than a month with the DCPS school schedule.

And a pool at Hearst would be fairly convenient for kids living in Mt Pleasant, Adams Morgan, Kalorama & Columbia Heights.   The pool is also pretty close to Rock Creek Park and the new Klingle Trail so I could imagine people biking to the pool who live convenient to RCP and [b]want a safer pool to bike to even if their Ward pool is a bit closer.[/b]

BTW if you haven't been to any of the other DC pools, and I assume the most frequent posters on this thread haven't been because they continually underestimate how long it takes to get to them, you wouldn't know that most of the other pools are packed on hot summer days which is to say we also need another pool simply from a capacity perspective.[/quote]

So you mean that they don't want to swim with the "wrong people"?  :lol: [/quote]

No that is not what I mean - geez is it still 1960 in Cleveland Park?[/quote]

You clearly have no understanding of Cleveland Park history.  In the 1960s white and black residents of Cleveland Park were teaming up with less affluent neighborhoods to stop a plan to hollow out D.C. with freeways.  Their slogan was "no to white men's freeways through black men's bedrooms."  Killing the D.C. Freeway project provided the infusion of funding for Metro.  But, oh, those Cleveland Park NIMBYs![/quote]

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