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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How about remodeling the Wilson Aquatic Center to allow for a huge open-air deck with roll-up window walls?  It would be criminal to change the 100-year stretch of serenity enjoyed by the Hearst neighborhood.[/quote]

It would be criminal to avoid programming a public park to be used by the public for how the public wants to use it, particularly at the behst of a handful of nearby neighbors who are selfishly fighting it.

It ain't YOUR park. It belongs to all of us. You just happen to live close to it. That doesn't give you more rights, more say or more sway over what happens there.[/quote]

Congratulations! You’ve persuaded me — to oppose the pool at Hearst.  I WAS fine with it at first. But who are you to preach about what community opinion is? 2500 messages later it’s clear that people have different opinions, not just on this forum but at ANC meetings and expressed in the Northwest Current etc.   Must you always delegitimize and denigrate the concerns of close-by neighbors or soccer moms or tennis players?   Their opinions also count.  You come across as the selfish one, like  “I want MY pool and I want it NOW! “

So build the pool in Ward 3, just anywhere but Hearst Park.  That way, there’s less chance that I’ll hear you at the pool.  If you’re this nasty on-line, then it would probably be no picnic (or pool party) in person.[/quote]

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