Lumberman's 9000 Home Bogeyman

What's the alternative to PGA Village? 9000 homes - right? Wrong. The following is an excerpt from the San Antonio Express-News, April 6, 2002.

            "In a scene before the council vote that seemed to belong in "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," Castro got Dawson to acknowledge the company never planned to build 9,000 single-family homes if the resort were not approved.

             Dawson countered he never had said 9,000 houses. Lumbermen's representatives have said they have the right to build a mix of homes, apartments and businesses that in terms of water usage would equal 9,000 houses.

             Castro sarcastically praised Lumbermen's for creating a "bogeyman" by scaring residents with the unlikely scenario of owners of expensive homes crowded on small lots, changing the oil in their automobiles themselves and indiscriminately saturating their lawns with chemicals — resulting in aquifer contamination."

Full Story: http://news.mysanantonio.com/story.cfm?xla=saen&xlb=151&xlc=663017

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Note: If PGA Village is built, in addition to two golf courses, the developer plans to build a 500 room hotel; 4000 homes, condos, and apartments; and 100,000 square feet of commercial office space^a.

^a Sources: City of San Antonio Fact Sheet, distributed at public meetings held in each council district, April 2, 2002; and San Antonio Express-News, March 10, 2002.

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