Four years ago this month the Dallas City Council got its initial peek at the Park and Recreation Department’s plans to fill in the city’s 17 neighborhood swimmin’ holes and replace them with water parks.
At the time, then-Park and Rec director Paul Dyer told the council: Maintaining the aging pools was getting too expensive to justify, and, besides, “These pools don’t serve the public the way they used to.”
Hence the July 2012 Aquatics Facilities Study that led to the 2013 update that led to the sale of Elgin B. Robertson for $31.8 million that will be poured into the water parks.
Now, finally, we have some idea where the city could sink those water parks.
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