Smaller pool makes big splash at advisory meeting

The new community pool design is making waves.

The Parks Department presented the plan for a smaller, but more amenity-filled pool to City Council last month. Thursday, a group of involved residents attended the Parks Advisory Board meeting and asked them to reconsider the size.

“We have a little grassroots swim team get started the last few years from St. Mary’s (Catholic School) and the kids use the pool and the multiple lanes there to do competitions,” said Heidi Altman, Head of School at St. Mary’s. “I was wondering if there was a way of the pool remaining and being expanded to keep the lanes it has.”