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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why in the world do you think it is good for the broader community to limit field time at schools?  I'm sympathetic to a degree on the lights though in the case of the Field School it is pretty well buffered on all sides:

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But as a parent I'm fed up with wasting time racing all over DC adding to congestion and pollution while both private and public school athletic fields are locked on the weekend in large part because of opposition from nearby neighbors.

So the nearby neighbors don't have the burden of listening to children playing sports (the horror) while everyone else wastes time and has additional traffic on their streets.

It is no surprise that the clueless dinosaurs on ANC 3D have done this at every opportunity but I certainly hope the community in Tenleytown via their ANC insists that GDS make their athletic facilities available to the public at specific times, particularly since GDS is bragging about the greenery this project will allegedly create while at the same time creating an additional burden by requesting that 42nd Street be closed through this stretch to create these playing fields.

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I think most of the neighbors with no kids or no kids who play rec sports are not going to feel your pain or agree with you. You don't have to live next to these fields ! You just expect to waltz in, make a bunch of noise and take up a bunch of parking places. Your post could be used by the ANC as an example of why these kinds of activities should be banned.[/quote]

And lots of folks can't see the forest for the trees.

I live a 5 minute walk from GDS and would be comfortable letting either of my boys walk alone to athletic events there.  But instead we get in the car and drive past GDS and its unused field on the way to events in far flung often inaccessible places - sitting in traffic in front of other peoples homes and then parking our car on the street in front of other peoples homes near another athletic field that is also near other peoples homes.

Or perhaps we should burden no one with anything ever?

I don't have an athletic field in my back yard but my block is hemmed in by two streets with fairly high levels of traffic - it would be great for me if no one drove on either street but then many people would be unable to drive to their homes or get to work - and yes in my case traffic patterns have changed in our time in the neighborhood due to forces completely out of out control but things do change in life regardless of what your real estate agent told you when she sold you your home.

We have scarce amounts of land in DC and it is stupid and irresponsible to limit access to athletic fields that are in high demand so neighbors won't have to deal with the very normal urban burden of parking and the terrible imposition of noise from children.

Folks who don't like such burdens should move to the gated parts of Montgomery County where most of the GDS student population also comes from.

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