Wisconsin Dells Long Off Season Contributes To Impractical Local Policy

The off season in the Wisconsin Dells area is a time period from about September 15th to about April 15th.  During this time period approximately 75 percent of the Down Town Wisconsin Dells store front operators close.  This is due to the drastic drop in over night stays at the large Wisconsin Dells area resorts.

This is a difficult time for local level community planners who see how the lack of visitation can close a geographical area committed solely to the tourism industry right down.  The drastic drop in financial transactions across the Wisconsin Dells area leaves local community planners with little or no actual resources that would allow their committee to continue to function.

The long time period of the off season in the Wisconsin Dells area can move community planning conversations away from the pragmatic action of caring for the resident population - over to fantasizing about future revenues that will come from Disney like interventions.  This often includes unrealistic comparisons of the small rural Wisconsin Dells area to Cities that thrive with delivering tourism industry services but sorely lack in characteristics that match up with the geographical location of  the Wisconsin Dells area.  When visitation drops off - and incoming revenue is missing - anything sounds good.

The off season transports local Wisconsin Dells area leaders to a perception of lack and the need to act to remedy this uncomfortable time of little or no revenue.  This is a time where public service needs change - and the cost of maintaining the physical attributes of the community seem higher - with no money coming in.  Local leaders will act to amend policy that enables code enforcement efforts to expand revenue collection through questionable temporary techniques that lack any set reality in State and Federal Law.  This is non-productive activity being performed though local municipal committee's that are trying to compensate for the lack of a commercial district that generates any real revenue in the long off season.

Policy made during the long off season in the Wisconsin Dells area lacks input from the share holders who operate the local business's - they have fled.  This frustrates local committee's who are made to realize any real form of revenue generating change must be created through the cooperation of the share holders in the business community.  Much of the policy being created during the long off season will not apply come next April 15th when the Wisconsin Dells area summer tourist season begins a new.