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Anonymous wrote:Cleveland Park folk are so incredibly entitled. I’m liberal but I hate how so many liberals act like they care about others and about helping folks at the bottom until it hits too close to home. If I lived next to the pool I wouldn’t be thrilled but it is only open for a few months. Stop trying to act like your opposition is for the greater good.

How is it entitled to be appalled at the excessive tree removal? DC has one of the highest incidents of childhood asthma in the nation (despite no industry) and yet the DC government is removing hundreds of oxygen-creating trees from an established public park?? The closest that I've heard to "entitlement" was the argument that Ward 3 was entitled to its own public pool, despite the availability of public pools in the general area. Ward 3 has the highest per capita income in the city, so how is a Ward 3 pool all about "helping folks at the bottom"? I will use a pool at Hearst, but now that all of the trees are removed I do feel for the close-by neighbors. Instead of greenery, with no more tree screening, they will now look out an an expanse of concrete that will be lit up all year all night like I-395.

OMG really?

Are there are a lot of kids in Cleveland Park with asthma?

Hopefully despite being clueless you realize the biggest reason cities have higher asthma rates is because of emissions from cars from people driving everywhere? And enabling people to go to a pool in their own neighborhood will reduce the amount of driving that they do?

Since you are such an advocate for air quality you don't drive and take public transportation everywhere right? And have been fighting for car free dense residential housing in Cleveland Park?

Cutting tree is good for air quality? Either you are a low IQ type or you think posting stupid ideas on message boards is humorous.

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Anonymous wrote:I have just taken up tennis. Will there still be free, public courts at Hearst?

UDC, Behind the police station, Chesapeake and Connecticut, Livingstone and 41st, Ft Reno, Turtle Park. Lafayette.

18 courts within 5 minutes that are free of charge and almost never in use.

Have at it!

Anonymous wrote:I have just taken up tennis. Will there still be free, public courts at Hearst?

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Anonymous wrote:Cleveland Park folk are so incredibly entitled. I’m liberal but I hate how so many liberals act like they care about others and about helping folks at the bottom until it hits too close to home. If I lived next to the pool I wouldn’t be thrilled but it is only open for a few months. Stop trying to act like your opposition is for the greater good.

How is it entitled to be appalled at the excessive tree removal? DC has one of the highest incidents of childhood asthma in the nation (despite no industry) and yet the DC government is removing hundreds of oxygen-creating trees from an established public park?? The closest that I've heard to "entitlement" was the argument that Ward 3 was entitled to its own public pool, despite the availability of public pools in the general area. Ward 3 has the highest per capita income in the city, so how is a Ward 3 pool all about "helping folks at the bottom"? I will use a pool at Hearst, but now that all of the trees are removed I do feel for the close-by neighbors. Instead of greenery, with no more tree screening, they will now look out an an expanse of concrete that will be lit up all year all night like I-395.

OMG really?

Are there are a lot of kids in Cleveland Park with asthma?

Hopefully despite being clueless you realize the biggest reason cities have higher asthma rates is because of emissions from cars from people driving everywhere? And enabling people to go to a pool in their own neighborhood will reduce the amount of driving that they do?

Since you are such an advocate for air quality you don't drive and take public transportation everywhere right? And have been fighting for car free dense residential housing in Cleveland Park?

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Anonymous wrote:Cleveland Park folk are so incredibly entitled. I’m liberal but I hate how so many liberals act like they care about others and about helping folks at the bottom until it hits too close to home. If I lived next to the pool I wouldn’t be thrilled but it is only open for a few months. Stop trying to act like your opposition is for the greater good.

How is it entitled to be appalled at the excessive tree removal? DC has one of the highest incidents of childhood asthma in the nation (despite no industry) and yet the DC government is removing hundreds of oxygen-creating trees from an established public park?? The closest that I've heard to "entitlement" was the argument that Ward 3 was entitled to its own public pool, despite the availability of public pools in the general area. Ward 3 has the highest per capita income in the city, so how is a Ward 3 pool all about "helping folks at the bottom"? I will use a pool at Hearst, but now that all of the trees are removed I do feel for the close-by neighbors. Instead of greenery, with no more tree screening, they will now look out an an expanse of concrete that will be lit up all year all night like I-395.

Anonymous wrote:Cleveland Park folk are so incredibly entitled. I’m liberal but I hate how so many liberals act like they care about others and about helping folks at the bottom until it hits too close to home. If I lived next to the pool I wouldn’t be thrilled but it is only open for a few months. Stop trying to act like your opposition is for the greater good.

Anonymous wrote:You don’t even realize what hill I am talking about. I’m not talking about the hill between Quebec and the tennis courts that used to be filled with trees to which you refer. Of course no one sleds there. I’m talking about the hill between Idaho and the tennis back board. The hill at the other end of the park is riskier and scarier and steeper and very jerky when you land.

Tregaron is really far from that part of the neighborhood and now has “no sledding” signs up.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m the poster who grew up nearby who would have supported a pool. A ton of nice trees have been cut down. There is no denying that. The neighborhood is also losing the gentler sledding hill.

What sledding hill is lost?

The gentle one off near Quebec street that ended at the tennis courts. It was my favorite growing up - the one closer to the school is steep and fast and uncomfortable when you land.

It's maybe 60-70 feet between the street and the tennis courts - it's not even the length of one of the adjacent tennis courts and it had a mix of trees and bushes in it until a few months ago - I find it hard to believe too many people ever sledded there.

They didn't. Anyone in the neighborhood knows to go to Battery Kimble or Tregaron to sled.

I’ve lived in the neighborhood for decades. People absolutely sled on the gentle hill. Tregaron is more than a mile away and Battery Kimble is over near Sibley hospital!! Kids who live near Hearst aren’t going over to those places to sled on their own. Now, I think a pool trumps that, but stop lying. A sledding hill will be lost and many trees were cut down. It’s insulting and polarizing to lie to people who know you aren’t telling the truth.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m the poster who grew up nearby who would have supported a pool. A ton of nice trees have been cut down. There is no denying that. The neighborhood is also losing the gentler sledding hill.

What sledding hill is lost?

The gentle one off near Quebec street that ended at the tennis courts. It was my favorite growing up - the one closer to the school is steep and fast and uncomfortable when you land.

It's maybe 60-70 feet between the street and the tennis courts - it's not even the length of one of the adjacent tennis courts and it had a mix of trees and bushes in it until a few months ago - I find it hard to believe too many people ever sledded there.

They didn't. Anyone in the neighborhood knows to go to Battery Kimble or Tregaron to sled.