Our July 22 "Question Of The Week" asked you, our bloggers, to comment on whether or not you thought spending $160 million to build the Naranja Town Site was a good idea.
Our respondents were emphatic in their dislike for this town site in terms of spending all this money at once or instituting a property tax to pay for it. Or the fact that the site will use lots of water, something we've been told is a "no no".
Some respondents suggested that Oro Valley sell that site, noting that our current parks are underused. One suggests that if we need a "theater for the performing arts", one of the wishful items planned for the site, then we ought to try to do something in conjunction with the Amphi School Distrct.
Several of our respondents noted that the site will further increase the costs of operating Oro Valley since the $160 million price tag doesn't include the huge maintenance and operating costs for this complex.
Your responses demonstrated clear, resourceful, sensible thinking. Something that Mayor Paul Loomis has not demonstrated in his push to "go for it all."
There are other ways to build this site, as pointed out in an earlier blogger Evan Wise noted in a previous posting.
Click here to read excepts from our respondents.
And click on the link under "Issues We Are Following" located on the left panel to read all of our postings on the Naranja Town Site.
2 comments:
mmmmm this is becoming quite comical. 160 million for a park.... just a park. Why don't we buy a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner (there are 3 versions of the 787) for 157 Million. Wouldn't be great to see the Mayor wave to the town from the jet as he slowly rolls by the newly opened Wal-Mart? Or perhaps we could literality shoot for the moon with a 174 million dollar telescope. That's what Spain has done. "One of the world's largest telescopes...with a 34 foot mirror" The cost of building the GTC (The Great Canary Telescope) was borne by Spain's Education and Science Ministry, the regional government of the Canary Islands and several overseas partners, including astronomical institutes in Mexico and the University of Florida. Come on Oro Valley, it's just another 14 million dollars. I would like to know what will happen to River Front Park? Who is going to use it? Will the people of Oro Valley really want to use a park that's so 2003? Do we want to maintain the park? I think a Wal-Mart could fit on the property. After all we are just Gold Valley... right?
Povs, you really do put this thing in proper perspective. The Naranja Theme Park is "pie in the sky", foolish thinking for a Town, like ours, that cries Poor Mouth. The Town should get us a long term water supply. Otherwise, you can name the Site: Dry Gulch Park.
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