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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Someone did a calculation earlier in the thread, but if you had 3 doubles matches running from sun up to sen set every day of the year, you still wouldn't have the same number of park users as you would for 3 months of a pool.

Given the courts sit empty most of the year, it becomes a no-brainer in terms of DPR filling its mission to have a pool to attract and retain park users.

There are public courts that are mostly unused at Chesapeake, Lafayette, Chevy Chase, Turtle Park, UDC and Rose/Montrose. There are a ton of private courts including Sidwell, St Albans/NCS etc in the immediate vicinity.

The handful of avid tennis players have plenty of walkable options.

The hundreds of potential outdoor pool users don't.

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By this logic the thing to do is to bulldoze the tennis courts at Hearst and put in another soccer field. Then get rid of the baseball fields at Fort Reno, Stoddert, Palisades and Friendship and turn them into soccer fields as well. Because soccer has by far the highest participation of any activity. [/quote]

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