A vote by the Rutherford County Commission on zoning for the Bible Park USA will require a two-thirds majority. County Planning Director Doug Demosi tells WGNS News a petition from potential park neighbors will force 14 votes to approve the rezoning instead of a simple majority of 11…
The rezoing of the over 280-acres in Blackman for the Bible theme park is on the Rutherford County Commission agenda. The meeting begins at 5 o’clock Thursday, but a vote on the proposal won’t start until after the 6:30 public hearing on the proposal. WGNS will carry the public meeting and commission discussion on the Bible Park live beginning around 6:30.
May 15, 2008 at 12:29 am
I am PRO Bible park. We need this. I live in Blackman and I am ok with the idea as oposed to another neighborhood. LETS MAKE THIS HAPPEN!
I don’t want my taxes to go up.
I WANT A BIBLE PARK!!!!
May 15, 2008 at 12:31 am
Look, alot of us are afrais to speak out for the park because we fear retalliation. In fact, my neighbor has threatend to kick my rear if I stand up for this park. I am serious. This whole thing is out of hand. If we are for it, we get overly criticized.
Without saying my name or address – I too am for the park!!
May 15, 2008 at 12:31 am
WE NEED IT!
May 15, 2008 at 2:45 am
I am 100% against it. I will hate paying for it when it flops, and I can’t see how Pro Bible Park persons such as yourselves cannot see that this is inevitable if this project moves forward. A million visitors are more likely to come to my house and eat chocalate chip cookies than they are to visit this park.
May 15, 2008 at 11:10 am
A million people will easily visit this park. Why do others not see that? The million visitors are not from Rutherford County. They are what the more educated persons in our community call “tourist.”
Perhaps those who are against the park have never left Murfreesboro? Likely.
May 15, 2008 at 1:58 pm
I, for one, have left Murfreesboro if that comment was intended to be targetted to me. And I would love to see the numbers for the Orlando park, a place which is undoubtedly familiar with these tourists that you are so elegantly refering to.
May 15, 2008 at 6:39 pm
Three words people, Heritage Park USA, remember that? I don’t want to see this rotting in Blackman when it flops. Futhermore I have 3 kids, we attend church every Sunday and Wednesday for free, my kids don’t care a thing about hanging out at the Bible Park USA. Get a clue people!
May 15, 2008 at 7:20 pm
Supporters – Why do we NEED this? Why not something else?
May 15, 2008 at 10:40 pm
I just heard on the news that rutherford county is fixing to raised land taxes again
up 500.00 yes (five hunderd),just heard that on channel 2 news, now do you want the bible park to help cut some of the cost or do you want to keep paying high land taxes / now its your vote, honstely does it take a rocket to land in your yard to see the bible theme park will help. go fo it i for one is all for this park/.
May 16, 2008 at 1:31 am
IDIOTS – We need the Bible Park so that our taxes do not go up and so that tourism helps fund our area – NOT US
May 16, 2008 at 1:42 am
Your taxes are going up with or without this park. Wake up.
May 16, 2008 at 1:43 am
For the record, the above comment was mine, not meant to be sheltered under Anonymous.
May 19, 2008 at 4:47 pm
The bible park will not keep taxes from going up. They will go up anyway! Either to pay for this park or schools, your choice – TAXES WILL RISE. There will not be 1 million visitors to this park. We would be lucky to have 20,000 per year coming to it. Only ones for it are the ones that have land to sell for it. This New York British man has been trying to sell a pink elephant to us. He wants your tax dollars to build the park, then he will leave town with your tax dollars in his pocket and laugh all the way home. Our wonderful Mayor Burgess has bought into it idea with out really thinking. Greed is the drive of this park. Let the park, problems and lies associated with it go somewhere else but not in Rutherford county. I thought we were smarter than this. I was compared to Colonial Williamsburg Thursday evening, The only time they have had 1,000,000 visitors was in 1976! The attendance has never reached that mark again. Colonial Williamsburg is history where the country’s forefathers walked. Moses or Jesus never walked in Rutherford County. What Rutherford County really needs to do is put a stop to development and let things catch up. The growth here is like two trains that are going to collide on the same track.
February 5, 2009 at 8:51 pm
Walter is correct, taxes will go up with or without the park. The states and fed. gov. are spending too much money and that money has to come from somewhere. The gov. only gets money one way, and that’s from us. Therefore taxes WILL go up!