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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Looking at Google maps, Tuckahoe, Overlee and Chesterbrook all have parking lots larger than orange Hunt that could be used for team areas.  They also all have plenty of side streets which are what is generally used for parking?  Looks to me like those red x’s are green check’s.[/quote]

Orange Hunt has a lot of adjacent green space.  You all are so desperate to punish these D1 teams that you want your kids to stand on asphalt and park god knows how far away and then walk through busy streets through traffic to get to the pool.  Come up with better incentives and appropriate support for host pools that have the right setup and put measures in place to curb the bad behavior of some of the D1 spectator parents.  The answer is not to cram the meets into their pools and make everything unpleasant and unsafe.[/quote]

Easy: Shuttle service. Use the money forked out for luxury busses and have a shuttle service from a school or church.[/quote]

I think participating in all of these big event meets that are super important to some families need to start just costing some amount of money.  Clearly these folks will pay.  Just make it all pay to play with a means-tested scholarship program for the few kids' parents who wouldn't pony up the money.  Use the money to pay people to manage/handle a lot of this and to make it worth it to pools to hold these events.   Running meets of this scale off the backs of volunteers is not sustainable and really not necessary either.  People would complain for a couple of years about paying and about the good old days when they didn't pay and then it would all be forgotten and the new normal.

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100% agree, and I’m from a D1 team. I would contribute to a fund for those with less means as well. [/quote]

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