FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF News) – North Texans could soon be charged to visit the Fort Worth Botanic Gardens.
The oldest botanic garden in the state is in need of millions of dollars worth of infrastructure work.
Up to this point, it has been free to enter the 90 percent of the park excluding the Japanese garden.
Bob Byers is the director of the garden and said research is being done on implementing a $12 fee.
“The $12 that was mentioned was just a projection that we came up with that showed the group if we had a $12 admission fee what it would earn which would be about $3.7 million annually, actually about $3.3 million depending on how you figured it,” he said.
Byers said they’re looking closely at visitor data while the fee is being considered.
“What we had been doing is presenting to them reports that had come out about who are visitors are, what they expect, where they come from,” he said.
A task force is expected to present an opinion a possible fee to the city council before it would make a decision.
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