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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But you are expecting your neighbors to provide hypotheticals. No one knows. I can guess, but so can you. It isn't worth the 0's and 1's that it would take. I would rather wait and see what the plan is and go from there. Meanwhile, you are just exposing yourself to being an [b]elitis[/b]t worry wart.

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So it's "elitist" to like the playground/soccer field/tennis courts/grass?  Wow.[/quote]

Over this past weekend, I went by the park about 6 or 7 times, biking doing errands etc. In all of the times I went by, there was exactly one time that one court was being used. There were some people walking their dog on the "grass" field. There were a ton of kids/families at the playground.

Really, for how nice i was, the park was way underutilized.

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The NIMBY motivation against the pool is 90% based on keeping Hearst quiet and underutilized.  If the pool were reserved for just the 100 households closest to the park then everyone against it would suddenly change their minds.[/quote]

You make it seem like the Hearst Park area is some quiet, under-utilized oasis from which the neighbors want to exclude "outsiders."  Bear in mind how many Sidwell Friends students arrive daily for school (most living outside the neighborhood) and for Sidwell programs in the summer.  Hearst School is something like 70-80% out of boundary students who by definition arrive from somewhere else.  Many of the Hearst students also use the DPR facilities.  On the weekends, especially during fall and spring, Hearst field is utilized round the clock by recreational soccer teams, most of whose members arrive from outside the neighborhood.  Toss around words like "quiet", "elitist", "reserved", "NIMBY" all you want to deflect.

The reality is that people (many of whom come from outside the neighborhood) care deeply about this green but heavily used park and don't want to see facilities lost and trees cut down for an expanse of concrete.  [/quote]

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