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Anonymous wrote:May Chen has done more damage to ward 3 with I know what’s best” approach to governing. She is such an abrasive stilted person. How did she even get elected? The only people who defend her are her developer friends.

OMG there is probably nothing she could do to boost her popularity more than finally getting a pool in Ward 3.

And what are you talking about when it comes to developer friends? Hardly anything is getting built in Ward 3 - if any developers gave her money they should ask for it back.

How many of Ward 3's 82,000 residents will fit into a pool that is smaller than a tennis court? She didn't think anything through. She just saw an open field and thought, "Good place for my pool." She didn't see what many of us see, which is a heavily used green space. Hearst field is used every day of the year by residents and every weekend by soccer teams during the warmer months. A pool will only be open three months a year, eight hours a day. The rest of the time it will be an eyesore with a foot of green algae at the bottom.

Twelve years ago, Cheh knocked on my door and asked for my vote. She hasn't been back since. She is a diffident incumbent, who doesn't care a lick about what her constituents think. She wraps herself in the "smart growth" mantle but that's just propaganda for her developer friends. It's not smart and its not growth. Wisconsin Avenue is still under performing economically after more than a decade of Cheh's "I know what's best" approach to governing. She has become horribly out touch - but not apparently with developers. Oh, and thanks for the giant homeless shelter in a ward with the lowest rate of homelessness in the city. Mary Cheh needs to step down. Time for someone with fresh thinking and who is not entrenched - to take her seat.

Anonymous wrote:May Chen has done more damage to ward 3 with I know what’s best” approach to governing. She is such an abrasive stilted person. How did she even get elected? The only people who defend her are her developer friends.

OMG there is probably nothing she could do to boost her popularity more than finally getting a pool in Ward 3.

And what are you talking about when it comes to developer friends? Hardly anything is getting built in Ward 3 - if any developers gave her money they should ask for it back.

May Chen has done more damage to ward 3 with I know what’s best” approach to governing. She is such an abrasive stilted person. How did she even get elected? The only people who defend her are her developer friends.

The rub is that there were no studies.

Anonymous wrote:In a perfect world, sure, but since that isn't possible, but the money and studies for a pool at Hearst are done, then that is where the pool is going to go.

It isn't worth waiting til never for something that isn't going to happen when a pool at Hearst can be ready by the summer after next. I am looking forward to taking my kids there, as are all of our neighbors. They are your neighbors too.

Studies?

In a perfect world, sure, but since that isn't possible, but the money and studies for a pool at Hearst are done, then that is where the pool is going to go.

It isn't worth waiting til never for something that isn't going to happen when a pool at Hearst can be ready by the summer after next. I am looking forward to taking my kids there, as are all of our neighbors. They are your neighbors too.

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Anonymous wrote:There are a lot of new apartments going up within 100-400 yards of Fort Reno, and they won't have private pools. It makes lots of sense to put the ward-wide outdoor pool there, given the additional density and the central, transit-oriented location.

Actually most of he density that is coming to Ward 3 is coming nearer to Hearst than Fort Reno. The Fannie Mae and 4000 Wisconsin redevelopments are both within a couple of blocks of Hearst as are the existing dense developments of McLean Gardens and Cathedral Commons, though Cathedral Commons is not really that dense.

There are only a handful of additional units coming to Tenleytown - I think in total if everything gets built including the one project that already opened it is about 300 total new units in Tenleytown. Each of the above referenced projects dwarf that number and are walking distance to Hearst.

According to a real estate blog, there are almost 1900 new units slated for Tenleytown. The majority are just south of Tenleytown. However, the projects that you mention will have several private pools for their residents. 3900 will have two outdoor pools and 4000 will feature an outdoor pool and an indoor pool (on the site of the former health club). McLean Gardens and Vaughan Place currently have large outdoor pools for their residents. The balance of the new units in Tenleytown, all to be built north of Albemarle, individually are smaller projects which will have no on-site pools. These various buildings, some already under construction, are located almost next to Fort Reno Park.

Most of those will be housing AU law students who likely won't care about an outdoor pool.

By now Hearst Pool Mom's obsession has veered into the absurd. It is pure speculation to opine on who may or may not live in the many housing units to be constructed in Tenleytown and how they will use a pool. One could also speculate about whether it is the best use of taxpayer dollars to build a small public pool on a back street in a residential neighborhood where backyard pools, private pool clubs and apartment/condo complex pools are thick as thieves. Wouldn't it be more logical to build a larger facility in the most central, transit-accessible location in Ward 3, within proximity to a variety of multifamily and single family neighborhoods and other major public facilities?

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Anonymous wrote:There are a lot of new apartments going up within 100-400 yards of Fort Reno, and they won't have private pools. It makes lots of sense to put the ward-wide outdoor pool there, given the additional density and the central, transit-oriented location.

Actually most of he density that is coming to Ward 3 is coming nearer to Hearst than Fort Reno. The Fannie Mae and 4000 Wisconsin redevelopments are both within a couple of blocks of Hearst as are the existing dense developments of McLean Gardens and Cathedral Commons, though Cathedral Commons is not really that dense.

There are only a handful of additional units coming to Tenleytown - I think in total if everything gets built including the one project that already opened it is about 300 total new units in Tenleytown. Each of the above referenced projects dwarf that number and are walking distance to Hearst.

According to a real estate blog, there are almost 1900 new units slated for Tenleytown. The majority are just south of Tenleytown. However, the projects that you mention will have several private pools for their residents. 3900 will have two outdoor pools and 4000 will feature an outdoor pool and an indoor pool (on the site of the former health club). McLean Gardens and Vaughan Place currently have large outdoor pools for their residents. The balance of the new units in Tenleytown, all to be built north of Albemarle, individually are smaller projects which will have no on-site pools. These various buildings, some already under construction, are located almost next to Fort Reno Park.

Most of those will be housing AU law students who likely won't care about an outdoor pool.

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Anonymous wrote:There are a lot of new apartments going up within 100-400 yards of Fort Reno, and they won't have private pools. It makes lots of sense to put the ward-wide outdoor pool there, given the additional density and the central, transit-oriented location.

Actually most of he density that is coming to Ward 3 is coming nearer to Hearst than Fort Reno. The Fannie Mae and 4000 Wisconsin redevelopments are both within a couple of blocks of Hearst as are the existing dense developments of McLean Gardens and Cathedral Commons, though Cathedral Commons is not really that dense.

There are only a handful of additional units coming to Tenleytown - I think in total if everything gets built including the one project that already opened it is about 300 total new units in Tenleytown. Each of the above referenced projects dwarf that number and are walking distance to Hearst.

According to a real estate blog, there are almost 1900 new units slated for Tenleytown. The majority are just south of Tenleytown. However, the projects that you mention will have several private pools for their residents. 3900 will have two outdoor pools and 4000 will feature an outdoor pool and an indoor pool (on the site of the former health club). McLean Gardens and Vaughan Place currently have large outdoor pools for their residents. The balance of the new units in Tenleytown, all to be built north of Albemarle, individually are smaller projects which will have no on-site pools. These various buildings, some already under construction, are located almost next to Fort Reno Park.

Anonymous wrote:There are a lot of new apartments going up within 100-400 yards of Fort Reno, and they won't have private pools. It makes lots of sense to put the ward-wide outdoor pool there, given the additional density and the central, transit-oriented location.

Actually most of he density that is coming to Ward 3 is coming nearer to Hearst than Fort Reno. The Fannie Mae and 4000 Wisconsin redevelopments are both within a couple of blocks of Hearst as are the existing dense developments of McLean Gardens and Cathedral Commons, though Cathedral Commons is not really that dense.

There are only a handful of additional units coming to Tenleytown - I think in total if everything gets built including the one project that already opened it is about 300 total new units in Tenleytown. Each of the above referenced projects dwarf that number and are walking distance to Hearst.

Anonymous wrote:Fort Reno/Tenleytown is where the W-3 pool should go. I still don't get the push to shove a poorly conceived project and pretty small pool into a small local park, on a narrow hemmed in by steep hillsides. The pool will even require an expensive elevator tower to be built to reach the site. Much better to build a larger, more open, accessible outdoor facility in what is basically W-3's 'town center.'

It is only ill-conceived to the people opposing it.

Fort Reno/Tenleytown is where the W-3 pool should go. I still don't get the push to shove a poorly conceived project and pretty small pool into a small local park, on a narrow hemmed in by steep hillsides. The pool will even require an expensive elevator tower to be built to reach the site. Much better to build a larger, more open, accessible outdoor facility in what is basically W-3's 'town center.'

Yep, everything needs to go "over there"

Nope, Hearst has been studied and it is funded.

See you at the pool in a couple of years.

There are a lot of new apartments going up within 100-400 yards of Fort Reno, and they won't have private pools. It makes lots of sense to put the ward-wide outdoor pool there, given the additional density and the central, transit-oriented location.

"under consideration"

I am glad you bought that.

I'll look forward to swimming at Hearst in 2020.