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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The entire Hearst Field is used for under-12 soccer every Saturday, Spring and Fall.

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I'm glad the park gets some use on Saturday's in the spring and fall.

The rest of the year it is almost always some solitary folks with their dogs running illegally off leash.

But the soccer use is no argument against a pool - really it has nothing to do with it as every single proposal for Hearst maintains a large soccer field.[/quote]

Actually, they show shrinkage of the field, but DPR deliberately chose not to provide any actual dimensions to disguise the extent of the impact.[/quote]

God we keep going in circles where opponents continue to make things up.

One proposal doesn't even touch the field.

BUT THE MAJORITY OF DGS ALTERNATIVES DO.

And most of what the opponents are mumbling about are their own perceptions of changes to the fields dimensions.

WITHOUT DIMENSIONS, WHICH DGS DISINGENUOUSLY WITHHELD, THE SIZE OF THE SWIMMING POOL COMPLEX IS OBFUSCATED

But what is odd is that most of the opponents are way past the age of having any skin in the game when it comes to youth soccer.

WHAAT IS THE BASIS FOR THIS STATEMENT AND WHY SHOULD IT MATTER IN ANY CASE?

And as someone pointed out in a post in the last couple of days most of the games being played at Hearst are not even using the full dimensions of the field and instead are splitting the space up to play two games.

EVEN IF TRUE, THIS WOULD EFFECTIVELY CUT IN HALF HEARST’S FIELD CAPACITY FOR SOCCER GAMES WHICH IS A BIG IMPACT, CONSIDERING THE SHORTAGE OF PLAYING FIELDS.

But keeping making things up - I guess that is what I'd do if neither the facts nor public opinion were on my side.[/quote]

PLEASE WHAT ARE THE FACTS? YOU MIGHT START WITH REAL DATA, INCLUDING TRUE DIMENSIONS, SO THAT THE PUBLIC CAN BETTER EVALUATE THE “PLANS” AND ASSESS THEIR TRUE IMPACT.

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