Opinion | Fix our roads before building a new pool
The District is planning a $13 million renovation of Hearst Recreation Center, a four-acre neighborhood park at 37th and Quebec streets NW in Ward 3. According to the city’s 2019 budget, the renovations include construction of a swimming pool that will cost D.C. taxpayers $6 million. However, design changes made in 2018 to shoehorn pool infrastructure into the only viable site at the park will cause the budgeted amount to be exceeded. The changes include construction of a two-story pool house, with elevators to 37th Street above, and 20-foot retaining walls. No new funding was added to the 2019 budget to cover this infrastructure.
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