Actually, I hope that they are expected to do something meaningful and worthwhile during the day, that will advance them from homelessness. Is that part of the 8 new shelter policy? Job, job training, treatment, further education. Planting tree canopy is fine. Has the Mayor hashed out any agreements with Giant etc for job placements? No, i am not looking at Giant as a public service. More, something win-win as everyone has mentioned the families placed there will be hard working folks who have fallen through the cracks.

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Anonymous wrote:I passed by the new cheh homeless shelter today. It's massive!

You mean the Bowser homeless shelter.

Maybe the homeless can be enlisted to replant the tree comply at Hearst Park?

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.

You think everyone in Cleveland Park is a liberal? Ha!

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Anonymous wrote:I passed by the new cheh homeless shelter today. It's massive!

“The Homeless Shelter at Cathedral Commons”? There’s discussion of adding two more buildings in the area of the tennis courts and community gardens.

Thats more of a "campus" than a small neighbirhood shelter?

Anonymous wrote:I passed by the new cheh homeless shelter today. It's massive!

You mean the Bowser homeless shelter.

Anonymous wrote:I passed by the new cheh homeless shelter today. It's massive!

“The Homeless Shelter at Cathedral Commons”? There’s discussion of adding two more buildings in the area of the tennis courts and community gardens.

I passed by the new cheh homeless shelter today. It's massive!

Anonymous wrote:The shady trees on the park border were always slated to come down, given they were weed trees from 40 years of neglect.

Strange that DPR didn’t make that clear, probably not to rile up the neighbors more.

Anonymous wrote:The shady trees on the park border were always slated to come down, given they were weed trees from 40 years of neglect.

Is there a replanting plan or is it so the pool will not be in shade?

The shady trees on the park border were always slated to come down, given they were weed trees from 40 years of neglect.

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Anonymous wrote:The DC bureaucracy's indifference to the Hearst tree canopy is nauseating.

DOEE approved the plans, because what will replace the scrub trees and weeds will be better visually and better for stormwater management.

Really?! Please do share. No one has seen the tree restoration plan. Is there a detailed plan on line? DPR never communicated that over 100 trees woukd be cut down in the park. What is the program to restore the shady tree canopy on the park border?

Anonymous wrote:The DC bureaucracy's indifference to the Hearst tree canopy is nauseating.

DOEE approved the plans, because what will replace the scrub trees and weeds will be better visually and better for stormwater management.

The DC bureaucracy's indifference to the Hearst tree canopy is nauseating.

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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!

The courts and community garden behind the police station likely will be gone in a few years. DC tentatively has identified the site for public or subsidized affordable multifamily housing construction and/or for expansion of the new Ward 3 homelsss shelter which abuts the tennis court and garden area. This could be a game-changing opportunity for significant affordable housing in an expensive area.

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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.

Maybe people in Cleveland Park really are stupid and clueless.

Trees are great - Cleveland Park has lots of trees and I bet next to no one suffering from asthma.

To the extent that you care there is not really a consensus about why asthma rates are higher in poorer dense urban areas though there is a lot of suspicion that poor air quality is a major contributing factor something that the number of trees in leafy Cleveland Park will have no impact on but affluent Cleveland Park residents driving their imported SUV's into less affluent neighborhoods probably will.

The tree canopy in the District matters a lot, and not just in those neighborhoods with the highest incidence of asthma. (BTW, I have kids with asthma and we live in Ward 3.). To say that the tree canopy only matters close to home is like saying that the Amazon doesn't matter to global climate. It's especially important that a healthy an abundant tree canopy be maintained near major commuter traffic routes. Hearst Park is a half-block from Wisconsin Avenue and also close to Reno Rd.

What's especially troubling is that DPW's swimming pool contractor has taken down some of the barriers installed to protect the large, older-growth trees that remain, and has piled equipment and supplies in their root area. These trees especially were supposed to be protected. Is DPW and our Parks Department just contemptuous of environmental stewardship? Hearst should be a park, not some concrete-paved "city recreational facility."