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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"This. The trees on the edges are not great loss."

How did this city become a place where people who say things like this live?

Are these Trump administration people moving into the neighborhood. [/quote]

They want their pool.  And they want it now.  With bright pole lights for nighttime.  And cut down the trees, they'll just drop leaves on the pool and block the sunlight.[/quote]

Yup - our community wants and deserves a pool.

I can't speak for the community but I would gladly trade some trees for the pool - in any case the trees to both the south and the west of the pool site are not legacy shade trees worth fretting over.  In fact some of them are in quite poor shape and have been getting choked by ivy for several years.  Not that the activist immediate neighbors have noticed or done anything about it.[/quote]

It's not the neighbors job to maintain the trees, particularly when DC is not exactly hurting for tax revenue.  In any case, I'd take away the opposite lesson from your point.  If DPR -- aka the parks people -- can't maintain the trees in what is, after all, a public park, then what confidence do we have that they will maintain well a major facility that won't even be operated 9 months out of the year?[/quote]

Well no its not but sometimes if something needs to be done in DC you need to do it yourself and not wait around for someone else.

We have the neighbors (presumably) on this thread making all sorts of claims about the conditions in and merits of the trees in this park but they themselves are not actually aware of them.  Nor does it appear any of these "advocates" for the park have made any effort to get the trees taken care of.

I, in fact, have managed to get DGS out to do a number of both major and minor landscape things at two different DPR parks in Upper NW.  Both parks, unlike Hearst, are staffed full time but no one had ever made the requests.

But making the requests themselves were pretty easy - some photos on the phone, a 311 request and a couple of follow up emails.  Probably in total about 15 minutes of my time.

It does not appear any of the advocates/Hearst Park lovers are similarly inclined to make a similar effort.  Or alternately they simply may not have spent enough time in the actual park to notice.

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Bowser would rather give DC tax dollars away to families from PG and elsewhere who sneak their kids into DC public schools.  Sorry, folks, if you care about your parks, you're on your own.[/quote]

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