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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The maintenance of Jeleff does suck, but that seems largely political.  The pools that sit vacant in Wards 7 and 8 seem to be maintained like gems.  I sometimes wonder whether they round up all of the broken chairs on Memorial day and dump them at Jeleff and G'town pools so that the "less served" communities have things that actually work. These.  [b]Is the attitude that the rest of us can buy into private pools? [/b] I'd do that if the waiting list didn't put us at a point of entry that coincides with my kids leaving for college!  [/quote]

Not sure that this is DC's attitude.  But some posters on this thread have expressed the attitude that the Hearst tennis courts are expendable because users can just buy into private tennis clubs at independent schools, etc.[/quote]

That was in direct response to the attitude that the public should buy memberships at the hotel pools, or the Cleveland Park Club or Montgomery County Community pools.

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The point is, no one wants to lose existing public park facilities and features like tennis courts, fields, a playground and large shade trees, even while enhanced public swimming options may be desirable as well.  Mary Cheh says that all will be wonderful, everything will fit and nothing will be sacrificed at Hearst.  It would go a long way if she showed the community the preliminary plan, to move this from the Land of Make Believe to something, uh, more concrete.[/quote]

I would not mind losing a tennis court for a pool. I drove by tonight at 6pm and only one court was being used by 2 people.  If there was a pool there would have been 20 people there. [/quote]

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