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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Both Hearst playgrounds could use a serious facelift. But, to think they would touch a $1M+ plus turf soccer field that is only 2 years old is unlikely, even by DC standards of waste and fraud.

Who said anything about the turf field?There is the basketball court - which is the most logical place for a pool and, of course, the playground itself.

Why this pool proposal was not included in the original renovation of the playground, I will never understand.  [/quote]

Uh, maybe because there's no good site for a pool there?  It was pretty clear from the outreach meeting at Hearst park that the DC agencies wanted it known that they had not chosen the Hearst location.  Just like the Cathedral Commons homeless shelter (in which no one consulted the police, in whose parking lot it will be located) , it's pretty clear that the Hearst location is purely a Cheh decision.  And Mary Always Knows Best.
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+1.  The only way to put more than a kiddie wading pool is to rip something substantial out of Hearst Park, like the upper playground.  And tearing things out would be unacceptable to park users.  Time to go back to school, Professor Cheh.  Admit you goofed, big time, and move on.  Too bad, instead of going to law school, that you didn't study a little more geometry and perhaps some basic site drawing.[/quote]

So let's say just maybe that someone from DCPR has been counting the number of people using the tennis courts over the past four weekends.  Carr to guess how many people per day? [/quote]

[b]The tennis courts are heavily used every weekend and public courts in the neighborhood are scarce.  None at Macomb Park for example.  If DPR tore out courts for a pool there would be a veritable shitstorm[/b].[/quote]

UDC is right in the neighborhood and has all of those tennis courts that used to be open to the public and are now locked on the weekends.  Why not open them up again?[/quote]

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