Klyde Warren Park Would Like to Begin Taxing Its Neighbors

I didn't think that republics wanted any more new taxes - where are the Tea Party folks when we need them - and I haven't heard them say anything about he Trinity Toll Road either.

I'll only pay if they put a ballfield in since they took the one out at Griggs.  KWP is  a park nobody needed and they had to get private donations to pay for it.  Money would have been better spent building a park on the site of the old Reunion Arena where there is parking and where traffic to/from downtown wouldn't be impacted.   Make the companies who donated money for the park pay for its upkeep or follow @Montemalone 's suggestion and toll anyone who uses it.

Empress Suhm just figured out that you can't drill on a deck park. Klyde's gotta become a profit center like all the others!

I agree Justin, Katy Trail is used way more or at least just as much, I think their members program and friends is a great idea to carry over to Klyde Warren. however, the fact is they just want the money...

Can we just take this out of Klyde's allowance?

Maybe he can have some of his friends come down and volunteer with him.

Ada just took the bebe's there on Sunday. They loved it.

Lame park its just a fad for now, give it a year or so and it will be an empty park

Perhaps they can pass the collection basket at Mayor Mike's pep rally on Saturday. Once again, his boss Mary Suhm pulled another scam on Dallas residents.

If it increased property values in the area, than it is already generating more propery tax revenue for the city as a result, so why another tax?

I love Klyde Warren Park and what it brings to Downtown (I'll love it more once the seemingly never-ending construction is complete). In fact, I just got home from going on a mid-day walk through the park before heading to work. Honestly, I don't even mind the idea of a small tax to keep it running and offering what it currently offers. However, as others have stated, I do mind the fact that they want to spring that tax on local businesses after the fact. Sure, the park has likely helped increase area property values, so why not use that goodwill to push a "Friends of Klyde Warren"-style fundraising campaign to solicit smaller, voluntary donations from nearby residents and small businesses instead of jumping straight to taxation? To ask for additional monies by way of taxation, so quickly after the park's opening and, seemingly, without exhausting other efforts, leads me to question the abilities and motives of the folks running the show.

As a regular visitor, I wouldn't mind paying the tax.

.025% isn't unreasonable, but the fact that it wasn't agreed to before the park was built is.

Klyde's daddy should pay for it.

So the park named after a billionaire's son is hurting for public money. That sounds about right.

I don't think a .025% property tax is unreasonable, especially considering how the park has most likely increased property value in it's immediate vicinity.

A good reason NOT to go to KWP next Friday evening.

http://goodfridayinthepark.com/

Seriously???

"The $110 million project was funded through a public-private partnership. Public support included $20 million in bond funds from the City of Dallas, $20 million in highway funds from the state and $16.7 million in stimulus funds. The balance of funding is through individual donors directly to the Woodall Rodgers Park Foundation. Klyde Warren Park is owned by the City of Dallas and privately operated and managed by the private Woodall Rodgers Park Foundation. The Foundation studied great public parks across the country and plans to bring best practices to the park’s operations, programming and maintenance."

Hey we are building a park. Btw we can't pay for it so we are going to tax people to pay for it.

This artifical "park" is a highly overrated, overdone contraption.

The very average park.

I'm not a highly payed urban planner or an architect of public spaces or anything like that and I'm sure that people like that have bigger brains than me, but I woulda thought that future operating costs and how one is going to come about acquiring those dollars would have been included in say...the planning of this thing, maybe?  Isn't this very much like buying a bus and then looking around at everybody and asking who's gonna gas this puppy up for me?  Maybe buying a house and then walking next door to ask he neighbor when he's going to pay the light bill?  Does the fact that I might have addressed this little nugget before they built it over-qualify for the position of a Dallas urban planner?

This. http://www.carfreeinbigd.com/2013/03/i-like-free-stuff-and-i-cannot-lie.html

"60 percent buy-in from affected owners"

um no. It's 60 percent of property value — not 60 percent of the property affected owners.

Big difference.

The proposed Klyde Warren PID will double tax some Uptown folks and shouldn't.

http://www.dallas-ecodev.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/PID_Uptown.pdf

Someone built a nice Nice Park NOW Neighbors you get to CO-Sign the Note for the UP KEEP ....... The other shoe dropped .

In principle I completely support this because property values have benefited from the park, but if the urgency here is that the restaurant has been delayed (and thus the park won't collect rent until January), then why not just ask for a one-time donation to cover O&M until the restaurant opens?

Maybe if there were fewer bits like reading areas, ping pong tables, water parks, dog runs, helipads, transforming robots, laser light shows, and whatever else (some of those might not be real...), they wouldn't need such a high operations budget...