Franklin Field pool would bring back ‘summers many of us enjoyed when we were kids’
To the editor:
The proposal to have a municipal pool at Franklin Field would bring multi-generations of our community together in a central location to have fun, learn to swim, cool off on summer days, meet up with school friends and provide an opportunity to make new friends, much like the summers many of us enjoyed when we were kids. While I would love to have easy, walkable access to a large water play-area or a complex of multiple pools, as I looked at the proposal, posted in the Pelham Examiner on June 13, this is a smaller pool scaled to the size of our town, designed for our community to walk or bike to, in an area we all can easily access and enjoy. The proposed Pelham pool is unlike the expansive Wilson Woods pool or the massive Scarsdale pool complex. Considering also our friends and neighbors with mobility limitations that would benefit from water exercises, this pool would be a truly inclusive benefit for our community.
Solange Hansen
513 Fifth Ave.
Kenneth Gusciora • Jul 18, 2022 at 8:10 pm
Any pool project should be based on its own justification. It’s a major mistake to utilize existing school assets (i.e. Franklin Field) as a basis of a pool. You should put together a capital plan that includes funding to buy existing properties, demolish the existing stuctures, and start from scratch. That way the economics of the projected can be judged on its own merits and the anticipated membership cost “real”. Otherwise, you’re indebting future residents to a sunk cost.