tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6782792124434572025.post1406856037039821460..comments2011-06-19T09:31:01.211-04:00CityKinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09068481950069401281noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6782792124434572025.post-87952031334914842822007-11-01T12:30:00.000-04:002007-11-01T12:30:00.000-04:00I admit I have not been an active user of the HUB center pool. They close for several weeks between each season, and it is not an attractive option in the summer when the other pools are open and when we do most of our swimming. <BR/><BR/>Most kids swim in the summer, especially the "at risk" kids, and an outdoor pool serves a different purpose/population than an indoor pool. <BR/><BR/>CRC staff has indicated that they are investigating ways to convert or expand the Rec Center pool into a partially outdoor pool, and I think that is an idea worth pursuing. However, the site is very tight and I am not sure they could make it work.<BR/><BR/>To my mind, Ziegler park would also be a good location for a deepwater pool. Because of it's open, attractive location, it would certainly be successful. However CRC staff have taken that option off the table.Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09068481950069401281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6782792124434572025.post-58566909587510452352007-11-01T11:38:00.000-04:002007-11-01T11:38:00.000-04:00If the HUB Services building you speak of is the OTR Rec Center, then the pool is and has been utilized very well over the years - check out this link for current programming:<BR/><BR/>http://www.cincinnati-oh.gov/crc/downloads/crc_pdf15786.pdf<BR/><BR/>The kayak classes are so popular, they fill up quickly. While the hours are somewhat limited, they can have a good crowd during open swim.dewnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6782792124434572025.post-4503529613506203912007-10-31T11:53:00.000-04:002007-10-31T11:53:00.000-04:00The Lincoln Pool is great. The HUB center pool is a dark, underused and undermaintained indoor pool that isn't even open in the summer. <BR/><BR/>If we want to plan for current and future depopulation, why build any parks or recreation? Hell, everyone is leaving, might as well pack up and go myself. The whole point of this blog is to promote families in the city. <BR/><BR/>The point is that the pool [i]exists now.[/i] A deepwater pool has existed at that site for many many years and has been an anchor to the neighborhood. We have diving boards and swimming lanes. We have Guard Start, Swimming Lessons, and a Swim Team for kids 6-16. If this pool is closed and replaced with a spray fountain, then we have lost all of that, plus more. <BR/><BR/>The question is fundementally about what kind of neighborhood we want OTR to be. I understand that Washington Park is less of a neighborhood park than say, Hanna, Ziegler or Findlay Playground. Each park has a role to play and perhaps the neighborhood pool would ideally be in one of those other parks. Unfortunately, it looks like the neighborhood is headed towards as situation in which we have no pool suitable for swim lessons, diving or swim team, and that is a shame, a real shame.Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09068481950069401281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6782792124434572025.post-48126621083023160062007-10-31T10:28:00.000-04:002007-10-31T10:28:00.000-04:00There is a deepwater pool in the former Hub Services just south of Findlay Market. I very much doubt that the Recreation Commission has made much of an effort to put it to use. <BR/>There is a huge pool at the Lincoln Center in the West End, half a mile from Washington Park.<BR/>Before the Miami design students take to the streets and before we spend on another deep water pool, I would like to know the current estimate of the number of children living in the greatly depopulated OTR and the cost of a shuttle to the West End.Radarmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07490374472499934197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6782792124434572025.post-86147503890252963712007-10-31T08:01:00.000-04:002007-10-31T08:01:00.000-04:00A generation previous to ours spend a lot of money building pools in almost every neighborhood in the city. Are we that short-sighted that we just eliminate this amenity? As a society and as a city, do we think it is important that children learn how to swim? We moan about the teenagers hanging on corners in the summer, when they used-to hang-out at the pool all summer. <BR/><BR/>It is about priorities.<BR/><BR/>Also, I have no problem with Cincinnati Recreation Commission implementing more user fees to increase their budget. I certainly do not think they have examined all their options before choosing to remove the pools. It seems to me that CRC is trying it's best to become irrelevant, when they should be shouting "we are part of the solution".Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09068481950069401281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6782792124434572025.post-5575550892509942702007-10-30T22:52:00.000-04:002007-10-30T22:52:00.000-04:00It's a beautiful plan, but if they are closing pools for lack of funds, how can they implement even the plan that keeps the same pool location?Beachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03666845306981429878noreply@blogger.com