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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your opinion, totally disagree.

But keep making your selfish proclamations.

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How is it selfish to want to protect a playing field, tennis courts, a playground, mature trees and green space?  It seems that the selfish ones are those who want to pave over it, even at the price of sacrificing these aspects of the park.

As a previous poster suggested, if a pool is desired find a brown (i.e., already paved or developed site) versus a green one.  The western side of the UDC campus would be perfect, once the Murch trailer park is demolished.[/quote]

Classic NIMBY tripe. It is selfish because you are suggesting an alternative that isn't feasible. And then you extol the virtues of a park where the field is unplayable much of the time and is riddled with dog shit, shit that you probably leave there yourself and, tennis courts that are hardly ever used except the 1 or 2 absolute nicest days of the year. So you want to maintain a status quo of sever underutilization of a recreational facility which should be serving hundreds of residents a day, which instead is your own personal oasis and dog liter.

Yes, you are selfish of the status quo is what you desire.

[b]No one is suggesting paving green space or cutting the beautiful mature trees[/b], except for you.

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Then it seems that you could bring much of this debate to closure, if you would just tell us where the pool will be built.  We're all ears.[/quote]

Exactly. What is Cheh hiding? There's no way to out in a pool and keep all other amenities. My kids use the fields for organized sports and pick up sports and we use the tennis courts. DC agencies went out of their way to say Cheh chose this spot without any particular reasoning and without any plans. So please, tell us all how everything can be kept and a pool added? It's clear you are pissed we are challenging you. Perhaps that's because you have no facts to back up your statements. Just like Cheh. This whole thing is outrageous. Who says we are definitely building something on a site, squirrels away money in a budget and then doesn't tell people how or where exactly it will be built. [/quote]

While Cheh is not as smart as she clearly believes she is, Cheh is not stupid either.  She knows that a pool at Hearst means that something big has gotta' give -- most likely all of the tennis courts, or perhaps much of the field.  The upper playground probably is at risk also, but not as much.  The slopes and many trees are definitely at risk.  Her attitude with the Idaho homeless shelter (another site she personally chose without input from city agencies) was basically, there's going to be opposition so what's the point of having a public process?  She seems to be running the same play with Hearst park.[/quote]

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