Finally! A lighthearted item!
Item 22: You know how Kyle, Buda, and New Braunfels have these groovy signs introducing themselves to you?
We want one too! And we have some TxDot money that’s begging to be used (on I-35).
City staff want feedback on some preliminary plans, so they offer up these ideas to council as a launching off point:
Here’s what council has to say:
First is Jude: They’re all nice! I don’t know if I could pick just one. They all look sort of similar. But YES!
Then Mark goes: Well, I can certainly pick! I love E. That one is the best. The depth, the motion…yes.
Next is Max: I kinda think the whole concept is dumb. My phone tells me when I get to a city.
(I tell you, writing this blog is so much fun.)
Then Alyssa speaks: They’re all hideous. It looks like a retirement village.
And then Saul: Could we get a mermaid on it? Or a rattler? Or a bobcat?
(Yes! How about a mermaid wearing a rattler, while riding a bobcat?)
Finally Jane: They’re all terrible. Those don’t look like river rocks. River rocks are smooth. Why would the river be floating up in the air like that?! The words “San Marcos” should be horizontal.
Everyone likes “established 1851”. Max points out that we could go way back, and use that we’re the oldest continuously inhabited place in North America.
They decide that staff will bring back something so innocuous and bland that when the city re-brands itself, it won’t clash with this milquetoast excuse for a sign.
So what’s the official Marxist take on city welcome signs?
We could do a whole lot worse! Bring it back!!
The San Marxist 