Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 11:22:37 -0400
From: Dan Marley
Subject: Tourism and Taxes and McD’s
Enjoyed the post about us Chathamites needing tourism tax dollars. We certainly do, but we rarely get any. Jordan Lake only gets us Gas Tax and some snack taxes. Does Pittsboro even have a motel in which the boaters can stay ? Ferrington probably attracts more tourism tax dollars than the whole impact of the lake. With the new 1500′ set back from our major thoroughfares, we are really capping the tourism $ – no one will build that far back and if they did, no one would know they are there.
Maybe the Friends of Mount Vernon Springs will be our savior. They told us last year, via the Chatham News, that a park at Mt. Vernon Springs would give more tax dollars than the $100 Million mining and production operation of ISP. We are still waiting for something like Disney to announce – maybe a water park to cavort in the Health and Wealth Springs.
Also a short comment on McD’s and Hardees. Hardees in Pittsboro is slow, McD’s is usually fast, probably do to better training. My last visit to downtown Pittsboro to eat was to the Soda Shoppe. We sat and waited (party of 4) for about 20 minutes without getting waited on. We left. Won’t do that again.
Dan Marley
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