So you want to build a waterpark....

[TheOtherVillainess]

Hawaiin Falls Adventure Park is coming to a city..well..near me!

I can see the upside to this..there will be more jobs (during summer at least) and more visitors to the area. But will it cause MY water bill to go up each month during summer because I live so close to The Colony? I'm also curious about the traffic problems it will cause during the summer because of where I live. I'm worried crime will increase during hte summer months because of all the visitors we'll be getting that we normally wouldn't get. I'm worried about all the extra garbage these visitors will create that normally wouldn't be here because well...they normally aren't visiting The Colony. I'm worried about the impact it will have on local wildlife. But I'm sure the city Council has thought of all of that and has plans to take care of it....I hope.

I'm not saying building a water park near where I live is such a bad thing. Currently, you'd have to drive to either Arlington (the Six Flags waterpark whose name I can't remember right now...used to be called Wet -n- Wild) or N. Richland Hills (NRH2O) if you want to visit a water park. Both of those are quite a drive for someone who lives in either The Colony, Frisco or the surrounding areas. But I hope the city realizes what exactly it's getting itself into by building this thing.


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[Girls Scout Leader]

If it has gotten this far, they most certainly have thought of all this and probabally have had public meetings. etc. Contact your local city govt and read the minutes from these meetings. They are public and should be readily available to you. Many larger city meeting's minutes are now published on the interent like that the city's web site. Take a look at the issues they have coverd and see what thier solutions are! Keep informed! And have fun with this! I would love to able to drive less than 2 hours to a water park!

 

[Octoberbride03]

Any reasonable community requires that everything in your post be studied and documentation added to the application b4 zoning approves it.

My question is why would this raise YOUR waterbill? There are ways to recycle and reuse the same amount of water consistently, and i would expect a waterpark to have considered this. If they decided against it, then they sheould be held responsible for the water they use, not YOU.

 

[TheOtherVillainess]

My question is why would this raise YOUR waterbill? There are ways to recycle and reuse the same amount of water consistently, and i would expect a waterpark to have considered this. If they decided against it, then they sheould be held responsible for the water they use, not YOU.

I understand that, but the last five years or so we've had summer droughts, causing lakes and general water levels to be way, way down. We've also been on watering restrictions the last three summers. I'm worried that if the water park starts sucking up a lot of water (which I'm sure it will, no matter how much they 'recycle' it), the local water company will jack up the prices all over the county to pay for it.

I've read the minutes of the council meeting this was last discussed at and I am not reassured. I do not live IN the Colony, but rather really really close by (within 10 min), so technically I don't have a say in what they do or don't do within their own city limits.


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