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Tell DC Leaders To Support A Capitol Hill Athletic Facility

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Tami Plofchan
12 years ago

The feasibility study revealed that fields and parking together is the only solution

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Amy Nevel
12 years ago

Yes! This would be a very welcome addition to our neighborhood.

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Renata Ko
12 years ago

We live across the street and plan to send our child to the school if the facilities improve.

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Mike Soderman
12 years ago

Let's get this built!

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Barbara Fahs Charles
12 years ago

This is a really important project for our community. Lets get it funded soon.

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Molly Spector
12 years ago

Please do this for the students!!

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Josh Silverman
12 years ago

This is a very important project for the school and the community!

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Francesca Thompson
12 years ago

Come on! This is what the community wants and needs!

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Jennifer Mampara
12 years ago

We desperately need this full size athletic field on Capitol Hill!

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Christine D'Alessandro
12 years ago

parent of Watkins 4th grader and Capitol Hill resident

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Adrienne Crozat
12 years ago

This would be an excellent use of resources to benefit the whole community!

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David Hidalgo
12 years ago

We need better public space for city-dwelling school kids to play!!!

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Peter Flynn
12 years ago

The neighborhood deserves good facilities, especially for the youth, to play sports

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Philip Brady
12 years ago

Thanks for this great comment, Mike. Right now there is a drawing for dividing the existing single surface between turf field and parking. The drawing for the turf field shows striping for soccer, football, and track but just because you paint stripes on a horse does not make it a zebra. That small size of a field cannot be used for any of those sports. The alternative that the community is proposing with the parking underneath uses almost the entire upper level and that CAN be successfully used for those sports as demonstrated by the drawings worked out with the architect and the community.

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Anonymous
12 years ago

This makes sense for an effective use of tax dollars and the immediate and long-term needs of the school/community.

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Anonymous
12 years ago

Washington, DC

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Edward Moore
12 years ago

The community is growing and the number of

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Noah Meyerson
12 years ago

The current field is already heavily used, and the demand is growing.

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Victoria Dunning
12 years ago

My daughter plays sports and needs community athletic space!

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Mike Barrette
12 years ago Featured

It is critically important that the dimensions and design of this field be developed with input from local sports organizations. Fields put in at other schools, like JO Wilson, were constructed in the wrong dimensions, which limits the use of the field on weekends for games -- also meaning a lost source of revenue for DC.