Experts recommend $48m in Alexandria pool improvements

One of Alexandria’s most popular swimming pools may have been intentionally built centimeters short of regulation size in the 1980s to keep high schools and competitive swim teams from using the facility.

But with relations between the city and its schools improving, a pair of consultants has recommended finally lengthening the lanes at the Chinquapin Park Recreation Center to regulation length as part of $48 million in improvements to seven Alexandria facilities.