Re: New Park in the South - Holy Smoke! The park site at Riverview is only a little bigger than what you see developed. I think it extends a bit to the 3rd baseline side of the field (pretty unbuildable due to a creek/ravine/etc to that side, as i recall). I think the site at the Greens is considerably smaller and always contemplated as a smaller "neighborhood" park. I think RMA doesn't own any other buildable land on the South, and not much else nor anything adequately sized on the North. The RMA parcel of real estate adequately sized for a community center and/or pool facility is near the end of the North Parkway.
If indeed there is an apportionment of Parks Funds for neighborhood as opposed to "community" parks, it is IMO clearly the South which deserves a neighborhood park, since South parks and dues contributions have historically been spent more on the North than the South, and the Greens site would serve well that somewhat isolated corner and also Lakeview, if it ever does develop back in that corner.
As for a pool I think while it's nice to talk about and should be explored (most feasibly IMO as another phased/scalable project, an eventual add-on to a community center), it's not likely going to happen get built exclusively with members' revenues and will only become feasible when developer contributions start to flow again. Yes, that is dancing with the devil but the real world choices seem to be dancing with the devil or not dancing at all.
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