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Regarding the article: Protests grow as wedding venue sets to open in residential area
My advice to Friendship Alliance is: stop them; stop them at all cost.
We live in a residential area where several years after we moved here a wedding venue was quietly built right next to our property. We also heard the same kind of rhetoric from the owners about community concerns and operating the venue on a low-key basis with strict rules. Once they were established, it became obvious there was very little concern for the residents. Their focus was to grow the business.
Now, delivery and trash trucks are frequent, busses park near our property and continuously run through the event duration. Litter along the roads has increased. Noise levels are no longer monitored and “supposed” restrictions are not enforced. Most importantly, residential property values fell. No one wants to live next to or near a wedding/event venue!
Michael & Mark Black say they are giving “heavy” consideration to community concerns but the article in the News-Dispatch raises serious red flags about their intentions.
S. Schouten
Dripping Springs