• Collect sales taxes, property taxes, and hotel occupancy taxes
• Sell tax-exempt bonds, at rates usually reserved for cities
• Require San Antonio to "assume all of the outstanding obligations of the district" if the development is annexed.

Tax Give-away- If approved the City would agree not to annex Lumbermen's property for 15 years, allowing an unprecedented $60 million dollars in property, sales and hotel taxes to flow to the developers.This incentive is 20 times greater than those allowed at La Cantera and Hill Country Resort.

Bad Deals-The City of San Antonio has a history of not being able to effectively draft or enforce contracts with private developers. BIH and Yanaguana are examples of how the city gets "out gunned" by developers looking for maximized income at tax payer expense.

Low Wage Jobs-PGA Village will generate mostly low wage jobs. Approval would be inconsistent with the City's call for "living wages." PGA Village Golf course and hotels would be effectively inaccessible to many of those who need jobs the most.

Responsibility- Lumbermen's refuses to carry liability insurance that would cover clean-up costs in the event of release of hazardous materials.

Sprawl-PGA Village would use our tax dollars to encourage suburban sprawl over the Edwards Recharge Zone, straining the city's ability to provide adequate infrastructure and maintenance in older parts of our community.

Misrepresentation- Developers claim that their golf courses will consume less water than the 9,000 homes they threaten to develop if the agreement is not approved. These golf courses will simply displace, not replace these homes and the associated water use. The truth is that the three courses alone would actually represent additional overall water consumption at a rate of nearly 1.8 million gallons a day during the hot summer months.

Who Pays For the Water? Strict limits govern the amount of water that can be pumped from the Edwards Aquifer. SAWS ratepayers are paying millions for conservation and development of new sources of water. Can we afford to essentially subsidize the additional use for golf courses? Averaged out over a year this is enough water to serve the needs of 2,300 families. Drought period water use restrictions would not apply within the district under this agreement.

Higher Property Values- To date voter approved Prop. 3 funds have been unable to purchase a single acre in the Cibolo Canyon area due to highly escalated property values. If approved the higher values resulting from speculation associated with the proposed PGA Village will continue to curtail the City of San Antonio and SAWS efforts to purchase land for preservation over the recharge zone.

Open Space-Lumbermen's claims they will donate land as dedicated Open Space. The truth is that they will reimburse themselves at inflated "fair market" values from tax revenues levied in the district.