Great video. Thanks for sharing. Don't want to stir up any trouble, but I was reading a few items and saw where this lake is apparently already pre-platted for residential development. Some agency, or municipality, or conglomerate has already diligently zoned every square inch for miles around the perimeter of the lake. It dictates the lot sizes, sq footage required for homes, etc. That kind of drives me nuts to be honest. Everything has been calculated before the dam is even finished. I would like to know who it was that had the foresight to draft all of this up. When you think back to the previous few lakes that opened around DFW - Lake Ray Roberts, Cooper Lake, Richland Chambers - I don't recall any such pre-zoning around the shorelines. Do any of you? Maybe they did, and I just wasn't aware of it. But I don't think so. Incidentally, the exact same thing is already in effect at Bois D'Arc Lake. Developers and city/county/state officials drew up all of the zoning before the lake even opened. And this makes pretty much everything high-dollar real estate around these 2 new lakes. Even the crumbling houses in Ladonia are listed for ridiculous prices. Sad.
There was a lake planned south of Tyler and north of Jacksonville (Lake Columbia). I think it got Army COE approval but didn't get the private funding. I hope it resurrects at some point. Texas will need more and more water going forward.
I assume they pay FMV under eminent domain laws - right? That wouldn’t be stealing. Also, water is need to support the public so it’s needed for the public good. Droughts are devestating.
@bobwhite825 Amen brother! These people commenting about "the public" needing whatever to justify stealing someone's else's heritage, livelihood, and life's work have no vested interest in this country. They own nothing, never worked the land, and have an all around communist attitude. Until it actually happens to them, and then they scream and cry like babies because they're spoilt. If it wasn't for the land owners, there'd be no USA! Unless you own land, you shouldn't be allowed to vote. That's the way the country was formed, and that's the way it should be.
No but it’s not called stealing and you know it. In my area in the hill country, extended droughts require more water for everybody. We need more lakes here. You were trying to use an incorrect, emotional argument and I called you out on it.
@craigscott7315 If something you own is not for sale but someone takes it, it is stealing. No amount of money can replace the land a family uses for their livelihood! FMV is theft. My land retuns the FMV of my land yearly. If there isn't enough water to support the people in your area you shouldn't be living there! Your opinion on land theft is immoral.
Very cool. What a great experience watching the build of a lake.
Cant wait to fish that lake once it's open! I live 10min from there. Love fishing Bois D' Ark lake, its a great fishing lake
Me too
Great video. Thanks for sharing. Don't want to stir up any trouble, but I was reading a few items and saw where this lake is apparently already pre-platted for residential development. Some agency, or municipality, or conglomerate has already diligently zoned every square inch for miles around the perimeter of the lake. It dictates the lot sizes, sq footage required for homes, etc. That kind of drives me nuts to be honest. Everything has been calculated before the dam is even finished. I would like to know who it was that had the foresight to draft all of this up.
When you think back to the previous few lakes that opened around DFW - Lake Ray Roberts, Cooper Lake, Richland Chambers - I don't recall any such pre-zoning around the shorelines. Do any of you? Maybe they did, and I just wasn't aware of it. But I don't think so. Incidentally, the exact same thing is already in effect at Bois D'Arc Lake. Developers and city/county/state officials drew up all of the zoning before the lake even opened. And this makes pretty much everything high-dollar real estate around these 2 new lakes. Even the crumbling houses in Ladonia are listed for ridiculous prices. Sad.
Cool video, hope you make more.
Thank you I have more I’ll get them out
Nice perspective on this Project. I'm one of those creek walkin' folks. Not one of them in the video, ha.
There was a lake planned south of Tyler and north of Jacksonville (Lake Columbia). I think it got Army COE approval but didn't get the private funding. I hope it resurrects at some point. Texas will need more and more water going forward.
Just a few miles from Bug Tussle.
Everybody knows where that is.😃
Thats awesome, thanks for the video. I wish they would build a new lake in North Houston area. Don't have many lakes around here
Every time they build a lake they steal someone’s land.
I assume they pay FMV under eminent domain laws - right? That wouldn’t be stealing. Also, water is need to support the public so it’s needed for the public good. Droughts are devestating.
@ Would you be willing to just give up your land to good old us government because they want it?
@bobwhite825
Amen brother!
These people commenting about "the public" needing whatever to justify stealing someone's else's heritage, livelihood, and life's work have no vested interest in this country. They own nothing, never worked the land, and have an all around communist attitude. Until it actually happens to them, and then they scream and cry like babies because they're spoilt. If it wasn't for the land owners, there'd be no USA!
Unless you own land, you shouldn't be allowed to vote. That's the way the country was formed, and that's the way it should be.
No but it’s not called stealing and you know it. In my area in the hill country, extended droughts require more water for everybody. We need more lakes here. You were trying to use an incorrect, emotional argument and I called you out on it.
@craigscott7315
If something you own is not for sale but someone takes it, it is stealing. No amount of money can replace the land a family uses for their livelihood! FMV is theft. My land retuns the FMV of my land yearly.
If there isn't enough water to support the people in your area you shouldn't be living there! Your opinion on land theft is immoral.
When are they gonna flood it
11,000 acres.
Is this where contractors took ranch land away from ranchers for this new lake?