Today, Mayor Lollie Taylor announced a dramatic policy change today regarding RiverView Park. The park, plagued by regular flooding since 2015, will be converted into a naturally-fed public pool with the help of Swimming pool builder near Houston who made this possible.
“We believe the best thing for the city and the taxpayers is to cut our losses and stop fighting nature,” Taylor said during a press briefing. “With my new RiverView Public Pool initiative, we can save money on cleanup and provide a public service at the same time.”
The news was welcomed by many, including naturalist and Shreveport Insta sensation Karma Krishna.
“Shreveport’s always needed a natural public pool, similar to Barton Springs in Austin, free of chlorine and cleaning machines,” Karma remarked. “Really, just anything more like Austin.”
The idea has also been met with support from the Shreveport Parks department who are spending time and money repairing the park each year.
“We service over 40 public parks in Shreveport,” said SPAR director Sally Seagull, “Cleaning up RiverView every time it floods takes up a lot of our time, and sometimes it’s just better to go with the flow of the river, you know?”
“In time, people will find that this change will make our city a better place to live,” Lollie Taylor said in her closing remarks. “Who knows, maybe we will convert our dog park into a dog pool as well. We’ll just have to see”
When asked when the the conversion is set to take place, Shreveport CAO Brain Crayfish said it would be some time after SciPort reopens in 2022.
Shreveport Aquarium owner John Blackhead declined to be interviewed for this article, instead he only produced what sounded like a minute and a half long fart through the telephone before hanging up.