The Aransas Pass Progress (Aransas Pass, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 18, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 14, 1976 Page: 3 of 14
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So lhat project has laid dormant
for several years as has $300,000
in bonds Telford said.
In addition to Ransom Island,
the city has Golden Palms,
Telford said, which for some
unknown reason it has not been
able to market. This has also
been discussed as a park site.
Telford said the city has had
numerous private developers
look at Golden Palms and that
his firm has looked at Golden
i’alms for several developers
who have retained the firm to
look at the feasibility of deve-
loping the Golden Palms land
ior residential use much like
Key Allegro in Rockport.
“Everytime because of eleva-
tion and cost of developing these
people have backed off.”
Telford said he has become
curious about the Golden Palms
land as a potential park site and
has done some study on his own.
He said he thought it would be
logical for the city to maintain
the Golden Palms land along
Highway 361 to sell for
commercial application and
possibly use the rear portion for
a park.
Telford then went back to the
idea of developing Ransom
Island. He told the council his
firm recommends “you com-
pletely forget the causeway."
He pointed out that there are
only about 25 acres on the island
which are continually above
water and there is no since in
taking so many cars out there
that they would take up all
available space. He said the
distance is not so great that a
ferry boat system could not be
put in.
A ferry system similar to that
at Port Aransas could be city
owned and operated, operated
by franchise or contract, or
privately owned People would
be ferried across to the island
and the island maintained in as
natural a state as possible,
Telford said.
By cleaning up the surface of
the island, the city could
provide swimming, fishing and
day camping and could put in
picnic shelters, portable rest-
room facilities. Waste would
have to be transported back to
the city, Telford said, and he
added that the project could be
kept low key and done within
reason and the $300,000 that the
city has.
Everything which would be
includedi in the development of
Ransom Island would be
eligible for Bureau of Outdoor
Recreation money, Telford
said. He also noted that
everything that was outlined for
Golden Palms in its recreation-
al development would also be
eligible for Bureau money, with
the exception of a golf course.
Telford also told the council,
"You have $300,000 which can
be applied to recreational
development The only source
of matching funds that you can
get at this time are fifty percent
funds from the Outdoor Recrea-
tion Bureau”. He told the
council the Bureau will not
accept applications again until
December 1, its next funding
cycle. The application, he said,
would take four months to
process and then it would have
to go to the federal government
for an environmental review
and that would take a month. So
five months after the applica-
tion is received, it would either
be approved or denied, he said.
Telford later told the council
that if the city uses Bureau
funds it can not start construc-
tion until August of next year
and that if it uses the bonds that
are available it can have the
development ready for use next
summer.
This quarter. Telford said, the
Bureau had been able to fund all
the applications it had received,
although it had cut some of
them. The likelihood of getting
$300,000 in matching funds are
“slim”, Telford said, but the
possibility of matching $100,000
or $150,000 are good.
The idea of developing a
swimming and fishing area at
Conn Brown Harbor was also
discussed Telford said there
are problems there and that
there is an excellent area
around the memorial tower but
again water quality is in
question. He said he did not
know if the water would be safe
for swimming.
The question of such a
development at the harbor
being compatible with the
commercial activity in the area
was raised.
Telford said that evidently
there is a need for recreational
development and he recom-
mended that the city under take
a study to determine the exact
need. He told the council that
the Texas Parks and Wildlife
has a computerized program
which could be used. He said his
firm has just completed such a
computerized study for the city
of El Paso.
A basic study to determine
the needs for Aransas Pass
would cost $5,800 and an
additional $6,800 if a random
sampling of residents at home is
to be conducted. If this system
is used, Telford pointed out, the
city is going to be assured that if
it goes to the Outdoor
Recreation Bureau for funds
that it will have used the same
criteria for determining need
that the Bureau will use. “I
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 14. II
think you’re at a point that
before you spend $300,000 you
should under take this study "
“There is a valid need for the
study and just the absence of
park facilities as to normal
standards is enough to justify
the study, but what justifies it
even more is that communities
around you are taking advan-
tage of the tourist dollar and I
think paik and recreational
programs and beautification
programs is one of the things
that captures the tourist dollar
more than anything else ”
Mayor J.M Attaway then
stated that he felt that one of the
city’s greatest failings is that it
doesn’t have adequate beaches
or any type of waterfront
facilities or cabanas where
people can enjoy waterfront
activities. At one time, he said,
the city did have these facilities
but all are taken up by
commercial fishing area.
Telford told him that he
believes the ideal place for such
facilities is Ransom Island. He
said that as far as a beach area
elsewhere is concerned, at the
harbor the shrimp boats, wash
from the fish houses, diesel oil,
and dredging activity would
prevent good development.
Some private property, Tel-
ford said, does exist along the
causeway that may be acquired
that would be excellent but the
cost of the property would be too
high. He said such an area
would be highly visible to people
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