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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Putting the pool where soon-to-be-dismantled the portable classroom building is seems like a no-brainer.  The Hearst park shelter can be retrofitted for changing rooms and the school parking lot can be used by swimming families during non-school hours.  A win-win.[/quTheote]

Except that land is DCPS' and is slated already for an outdoor amphitheater for the school.  Building near the Historic Cottage sets off historic preservation issues as the school learned.  I think that building the pool there is just not going to happen.  Will have to happen on the lower field on DPR land.  Sorry.[/quote]

A better place for a pool might be on all that DC owned land behind the Second District police station on Idaho Ave near Wisconsin.  There's plenty of room for parking, as well.

What bothers me about getting rid of the field at Hearst is that there are so few fields for all of the rec soccer and other teams to use.  Groups and schools are twisted in pretzel knots, for example, to get access to Jelleff.   On weekends, the Hearst field is used round the clock versus a pool that would be used 2-3  months out of the year.  [/quote]

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