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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mary Cheh is horrible, unresponsive and arrogant. I saw her at the Palisades Parade and it almost ruined my morning. [/quote]

I appreciate that Mary Cheh listened to her constituents and has obtained the resources necessary to get an outdoor public pool into the neighborhood.[/quote]

It will be a glorified kiddie pool at the bottom of two steep slopes and perpetually in the shade.  The only way to make it bigger in this suboptimal location would be to take all of the tennis courts and part of the field.[/quote]

Why do you pool opponents keep repeating the same stupid talking points???

The pool going into Hearst park is the same size as all of the other outdoor pools in DC, all of which are quite well used and none of which resemble a "glorified kiddie pool" whatever that even is.

And shade at the pool is a good thing - it is always the first space claimed around the Bethesda pool because people usually go to the pool when it is hot.

I wish DPR had taken out all the tennis courts and put in a bigger pool though - the tennis courts are barely used.
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I’d be in favor of moving the tennis courts and getting rid of the basketball court. DC has plenty of urban basketball courts. It could always use more tennis courts. [/quote]

This.[/quote]

DC's tennis courts are woefully under utilized.  My tween has had his soccer games at Hearst for the last two years and this past year my youngest had his practices there and the tennis courts are hardly ever used.  Same thing with the courts in Tenleytown at Ft Reno and at Palisades.  The Turtle Park courts seems to be used a fair amount but I believe that is because there is a guy who uses them almost full time for tennis lessons.

Having said that the basketball courts I see in Upper NW don't get a lot of use either except for the ones at Chevy Chase Park which have been used for a league for several years which seems to attract some of the league players for games outside of the league schedule.

I suspect an outdoor court at Ft Reno would get a lot of usage though because of the proximity to Wilson & Deal - it would certainly get more usage than the tennis courts there which rarely have more than 1 in use.[/quote]

More people will use the Hearst pool in one summer weekend than probably use the tennis courts the entire year.  The tennis courts are a total waste. And they better put up some “no dog walking signs” on that new field.  [/quote]

Ward 3 basketball courts are less in demand that they might be in Ward 8, for example.  It’s a matter of local preferences.[/quote]

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