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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Awesome news! We participated in some of the community surveys, and would LOVE an outdoor park in that space. And  I think the "community" in this case is the community of residents of Washington DC, all of whom are entitled to use the city's pools. Easy bus access via H buses and the 96/X3/30 buses on Wisconsin.

I'd also like to see a dog park -- there are a ton of people who run their dogs off-leash in the park, and it's a nuisance, especially when they do it just at the same time kids are on their way to school. So it would be great to see a fenced-in safe area for dog-owners. [/quote]

I'd like to see a climbing wall also.  Seriously, the problem with building a pool...or a dog park...or anything else at Hearst is that some other major feature  has to go in this smallish D.C. park.  Space is finite.  The full-sized playing field, the tennis courts, the beautiful shady oak canopy -- one or probably several  will be significantly impacted by constructing other major facilities.  The problem is that pool advocates and even the DC government have not been very transparent about the hard trade-offs involved.[/quote]

Hearst is not a small park nor is it a well used park.

There is plenty of room for a pool and it would make the park well used which it is not now.[/quote]

I'm confused -- [b]where exactly in Hearst Park will the pool be constructed[/b]?  Clearly, the location matters a lot, on whether existing uses and trees will be 'pruned.'  [/quote]

https://dgs.dc.gov/page/hearst-park-and-pool-improvement-project

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