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Does anybody else's suburb love to spend money on Green Space Parks?
Posted on 1/19/26 at 6:14 pm
Posted on 1/19/26 at 6:14 pm
I live in a nice little subuurb in Atlanta which I love.. It's clean, great, safe and all of that but it seems like whenever they get a big wad of cash, they spend millions and millions building another county park
We already have 16 county parks in my city of 50,000 and I just read on the city's facebook page that they are building 3 more parks totaling over $50 million and every park we already have or they are building is massive landspace.
I would think that $50 million would go more towards road improvements, police and fire, perhaps education - How many damn parks does one small little town need? It's absurd.
Is this common in the suburb where you live?
We already have 16 county parks in my city of 50,000 and I just read on the city's facebook page that they are building 3 more parks totaling over $50 million and every park we already have or they are building is massive landspace.
I would think that $50 million would go more towards road improvements, police and fire, perhaps education - How many damn parks does one small little town need? It's absurd.
Is this common in the suburb where you live?
This post was edited on 1/19/26 at 6:17 pm
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Posted on 1/19/26 at 6:16 pm to FLTech
quote:How you knows where I lives?
Is this common in the suburb where you live?
Posted on 1/19/26 at 6:35 pm to FLTech
People come from the poor parts of town to use those parks also. So they have to build more in the end to meet the needs
Posted on 1/19/26 at 6:35 pm to FLTech
I live in Baton Rouge. BREC is a grift.
Posted on 1/19/26 at 6:43 pm to FLTech
Alpharetta? It could be worse, we spend millions on cricket parks in Sugarland that are useless to non Indians. Fort Bend County actually approved a $12m study for f'ing gondolas from Sugarland to Houston (engineering study.) 110k people live in Sugarland proper, and the powers that be think a gondola system is going to get people into work downtown faster than buses or their cars?
This post was edited on 1/19/26 at 6:52 pm
Posted on 1/19/26 at 6:45 pm to LemmyLives
People live in Sugarland and places like the Woodlands because they have zero desire to be in Houston or Harris County.
Posted on 1/19/26 at 6:47 pm to LemmyLives
Just for the record, Sugar Land is two words.
Posted on 1/19/26 at 6:52 pm to FLTech
Brother in laws construction company gotta ge paid somehow!
Posted on 1/19/26 at 6:54 pm to Cdawg
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Sugar Land is two words.
Most of them have moved up to Katy, I'm sure they'll correct me as soon as they take the "student driver" magnets off of their cars.
Fort Bend is the absolute worst. I'd rather live in Harris, Waller, Austin, or nearly any other county. I'd rather live in DFW where there aren't MUDs, overall. The athletic parks that DFW has compared to Houston for lower taxes is completely embarrassing.
This post was edited on 1/19/26 at 6:55 pm
Posted on 1/19/26 at 6:55 pm to FLTech
We don't need more shitty strips centers, more lanes, and more shitty tract homes.
We need more trees, green spaces and parks.
Get outside and touch grass once and a while. I know as Trump's strongest super solider that is a foreign concept to you but give it a try and you just might enjoy it.
We need more trees, green spaces and parks.
Get outside and touch grass once and a while. I know as Trump's strongest super solider that is a foreign concept to you but give it a try and you just might enjoy it.
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Posted on 1/19/26 at 6:55 pm to FLTech
most large scale park projects are funded by bond funds that have been issued specifically for those purposes...those funds cannot be used for any other purpose...and this would have only happened because citizens voted yes for the bond issue...
Posted on 1/19/26 at 7:00 pm to jclem11
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We don't need more shitty strips centers, more lanes, and more shitty tract homes.
We need more trees, green spaces and parks.
Bro just think of the lanes. If we just add one more lane we could have traffic flowing so DR Horton could put a 500 lot subdivision on 50 acres, so we can add another lane, so...
Posted on 1/19/26 at 7:01 pm to Ingeniero
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a 500 lot subdivision on 50 acres
Those are rookie numbers, you gotta pump those up.
But you're also proposing people commute 45 miles into a metro area or live in a condo. Kudos to your central planning genius.
ETA: that 45 miles is a near two hour commute in Houston during rush hour.
This post was edited on 1/19/26 at 7:08 pm
Posted on 1/19/26 at 7:03 pm to FLTech
Seems to be working. Provide quality of life and tax dollars will take care of themselves.
Posted on 1/19/26 at 7:10 pm to pussywillows
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most large scale park projects are funded by bond funds that have been issued specifically for those purposes.
Or private money from foundations or rich individuals wanting their name on a park. People use the hell out of parks around me so it's money well spent IMO.
Posted on 1/19/26 at 7:23 pm to Zappas Stache
500 people a weekend using a park is worth $30M from tens thousands of taxpayers? Nearly nothing, at least in Texas, is privately funded, when it comes to parks. The parks that get the most usage are in DFW/AUS/College Station where you pay thousands in fees to hold tournaments, which is perfectly acceptable.
Posted on 1/19/26 at 8:17 pm to jclem11
I guess they should add more trees to where I live - it would make a massive huge difference
Posted on 1/19/26 at 8:52 pm to FLTech
In OB, we have a dog park with water front access...
Posted on 1/19/26 at 9:28 pm to FLTech
Melting over green space is weird. I actually melt over clear cutting forest to build Dr Horton shite box homes or paving over pastures to build shitty strip malls littered with vape stores and credit unions.
Sure wish there was some random endangered species in said forest that forces it to be protected
Sure wish there was some random endangered species in said forest that forces it to be protected
Posted on 1/19/26 at 9:34 pm to FLTech
One park near me was built and dedicated to a good guy I went to school with that was murdered just across the interstate from the park.
Murderer was those of low impulse control. Shocking I know.
Beautiful park albeit small.
Murderer was those of low impulse control. Shocking I know.
Beautiful park albeit small.
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