Float Fest concerns not limited to traffic congestion

Though it was traffic concerns that ultimately doomed the festival permit for 2019’s Float Fest, Guadalupe County commissioners and members of the public raised other concerns as well at the permit hearing held Thursday morning.

At the hearing, festival organizer Marcus Federman and his attorney Joe Stallone presented their application for the festival permit and discussed last year’s festival and plans for this year.

“We’re looking at this more and more each year as a collaborative process,” Stallone told the commissioners, explaining that they have talked with neighborhoods, the Guadalupe County fire marshal and other officials to coordinate operations.