The city has two pools that opened in the late 1950s and has seen them become overcrowded as the local population has grown.
In Oceanside, for instance, the city unveiled a $12 million project this year to build an aquatic complex next to the El Corazon Senior Center that would include a 56-meter competition pool and smaller instructional pool a splash pad where kids could play in various water features and a huge meeting hall and other amenities. Several North County communities are taking stock of their dearth of pools. San Dieguito isn’t alone in its swimming pool shortage. Instead of drawing on Prop AA money, explained Chris Taylor, a principal with HMC Architects, a developer might borrow funds to build the pools, then recover its investment by leasing them back to the school district at a monthly rate over a period of 10 years or so.Īn operator like the YMCA could be subcontracted to run the pools, with an assortment of aquatics programs offered as a way to defray the operating expenses - a big complaint from school districts who can get saddled with a few hundreds of thousands of dollars in maintenance costs annually, Taylor explained. The group is considering a partnership between the school district and a yet-to-be identified developer and lender to build the pools. “We have the capacity but no identity to make it a pool experience for kids.” In the case of Prince’s children, for instance, swim and water polo practice can take place at Magdalena Ecke Family YMCA in Encinitas or the Boys & Girls Clubs of Carlsbad.įor swim matches, the school district’s La Costa Canyon High School hosts its swim tournaments at Carlsbad High School. Prince hopes to tap architectural expertise from HMC and said that a template for the pools, which would all be 25 meters in length and about eight swim lanes wide, could be tailored for each campus.Īll of the San Dieguito schools are fighting for time in area pools. He and other backers of the effort recently received approval from district officials to begin pulling together financial estimates, funding options and other information on how to build the pools. Prince is also an architect with HMC Architects in Solana Beach - a company with a 75-year history in designing schools throughout the state, including high-profile ones in San Marcos and Escondido.
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