Waypoint removal rejection appeal: City of Arlington Water Utilites Administration Building
kholman1-ING
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Title of the Wayspot: City of Arlington Water Utilities Administration Building
Location: 32.714022,-97.183129
City: Arlington
Country: United States
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Additional information: I feel this location falls under industrial site/critical infrastructure. I reported this for obstructing emergency services. The building is actually the water treatment plant operations building not just an administrative building. To access this you would have to be an authorized employee or contractor to enter the treatment facility. I thought anything industrial was off limits? Red arrow is the pinned location and the blue arrows are the treatment areas of the plant.
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Limited access locations, including those on the property of a business, are OK so long as the people who have access to the site can do so safely on foot (which presumably is the case for an admin building).
You're expected to follow real world rules when you play the game (so you specifically shouldn't trespass on the business property if you don't have the right to be there). This was all covered previously in the November 2020 AMA and the stance hasn't changed since then.
It’s clear the POI doesn’t meet any eligibility criteria, but unfortunately it’s nearly impossible to have something removed because it should never have been added to begin with.
The whole idea of public access meaning at least some people must be able access it is taken often to an extreme and people will argue if one or two people can get to it, that’s OK. I doubt that was what was originally intended, but it seems what the “clarification” is now interpreted to mean.
I put it under obstructs emergency services as the reason to request removal as it's part of critical infrastructure. It wasn't just because of lack of public access.
It is an industrial site more than anything which falls under obstructs emergency services. I wouldn't want the plant operations building for the water/sewage treatment plant to be a poi. Restricted access and I highly doubt the city wants employees playing an AR game in a restricted area with critical infrastructure.
It doesn't count as obstruct emergency services either.
Obstructs emergency services mentions industrial sites when rejecting a nomination. This building is industrial use and is basically the building where the plant is operated out of. I don't see how it would not be OES?
The building is an administrative building according to the title. That suggests the usage is more for offices and not industrial. There may be places on the site as a whole which may interfere with the industrial operations going on there, but an administrative office building seems like a perfectly safe and unobstructive location to me.
It's like having wayspots at a hospital. You can have wayspots on the grounds of a hospital, but anything that would interfere with ambulances or with emergency departments inside the hospital would not be good because those would obviously obstruct emergency services. Some art in a general waiting room or an enclosed courtyard would be OK though, as those are not emergency departments of the hospital.
Thanks for the appeal, @kholman1-ING. We took another look at the Wayspot in question and decided that it does not meet our criteria for removal at this time.