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

The facts are not on your side.  The Beauvoir pool memberships sold out in 3 hours and cost over $1000.  There are lines to use the Volta pool.  There is incredible demand for a public outdoor pool in upper NW.  [/quote]

Remodeling Wilson is ridiculous.  How about the Hearst pool is indoor/outdoor?  There's a huge demand for pool space year-round, a situation that will get worse with Lab closing its pool.  Build the Hearst pool with a bubble like is happening elsewhere: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ajc.com/news/national/ymca-wanted-use-outdoor-pool-winter-added-giant-bubble-dome/AzSEu5b76WfKsffEwvYlHI/amp.html#ampshare=https://www.ajc.com/news/national/ymca-wanted-use-outdoor-pool-winter-added-giant-bubble-dome/AzSEu5b76WfKsffEwvYlHI/[/quote]

This is the silliest idea yet.  Build, maintain, heat and secure a smallish indoor public pool at Hearst, which is less than one mile (a 5 min drive) from Wilson Aquatic Center pool, which DPR doesn't exactly do a great job of maintaining at scale.[/quote]

The suggestion was for Hearst to be indoor/outdoor, which means outdoor in the summer, which Wilson is not, and indoor in the winter.  What is silly about that?  It certainly addresses the opponents' views that the pool shouldn't be built because it would only be used in summer.  If you think people won't use an indoor pool because it's small, you don't have a clue about the demand for pool space in this area.[/quote]

But the opponents concern that the pool will only be used in the summer is an absolutely absurd argument.  Schools are in session for only about 60% of the days in a year - should they not have outdoor play space because the school won't use it every day?  And by that metric we should remove all of the tennis courts which are barely used at all - why have anything if it isn't used all the time?[/quote]

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