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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you look at an aerial map of Ward 3, in addition to the public courts (there are also a bunch of courts at UDC), there are also a ton of private courts at the various schools (which have private clubs etc).

Most of the courts sit unused for all but a few hours or days each year. Talk about wasted space.

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Thank your zoning board for that.

For about a decade the policy of the DC Zoning Board has been to require that when private schools seek a zoning variance to build athletic facilities, one of the stipulations of the variance is that they can only be used by students and employees of the school. So we have massive duplication of facilities, and facilities that sit vacant just about all of the time.

The irony is that the schools are much better equipped to handle public use of their facilities than DPR is. The zoning board insists that schools have adequate parking, and traffic management plans -- neither of which are required of DPR. So not only do we have athletic facilities that are sitting unused, we also have huge parking lots and garages that are often unused as well. [/quote]

Not true.  Sidwell Friends, St Albans and other schools all run or host summer camps and weekend sports programs that make extensive use of tennis courts and other athletic facilities.  It's also worth pointing out that several area private schools, Beauvoir, St. Albans, have pools as do neighborhood associations like the Cleveland Park Club.  So the available private facilities argument goes two ways.[/quote]

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