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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]

Turtle Park is not several times larger than Hearst - why do the neighbors keep repeating things that are demonstrably untrue?
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According to the DC Atlas, Hearst is square 1905, lot 802, 191,668 square feet.

Friendship is square 1560 lot 805, 245,221 square feet. So Turtle Park is somewhat larger. I think two things make people perceive Hearst as smaller: first, the topography is such that a lot of land is unusable. Second, Turtle Park has three fields laid out compared to one at Hearst. People think of fields as being all the same size even though they vary tremendously.[/quote]

Thanks for looking this up - there is also some unusable land at Turtle Park - hills on the south and and east sides and perhaps some of the wooded area as well.

In any case at most Turtle Park is about 25% bigger and has 2 tennis courts, a playground, a basketball court, a rec center and a large grass field that depending on the configuration hosts between 2 and 4 baseball games.

But yeah Hearst is the intensely used park.[/quote]

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