A water park in Redlands has been an idea knocking around for more than two decades.
It featured largely in residents' feedback during a 2013 state government consultation on overhauling the Redland Bay ferry terminal, declared a development priority in June that year.
That project, along with the pleas for a water park in Redland Bay, has since been put on the back burner to make way for the controversial billion-dollar Toondah Harbour project.
With the Cleveland ferry terminal and the contentious 10,000-resident Shoreline suburb in Redland Bay approved, the incoming council will only have a handful of vexing projects to stumble over.
Soothing tensions for acreage owners in parts of Thornlands and Kinross Road is likely to prove a handful.
When a local councillor, looking to be re-elected next month, raised the prospect of a water park last week, a fellow councillor accused her of electioneering.
The concept of a water park is a vote winner but should have been raised earlier in the council term if it was so important.
It is understandable why dusting off the old chestnut at the final meeting before council goes into caretaker mode before the poll was construed as politicking.
But bandying about the concept of a water park is very different to canvassing a hard-and-fast plan.
It is a pity voters will only get the full picture of what a water park will cost after the election and an analysis of where it will be sited, who will pay and how it will be maintained.
Whether calling for a water park report was a direct ploy to gain votes doesn't really matter.
Voters just want to know if it will go ahead and what's in it for them, and no candidate can tell them that.
Mayor Karen Williams made her tangible promises of no tip fees and capping rates rises at the start of her 2012 campaign and kept them.
As prospective candidates put their signs up for the March 19 poll, voters should be analysing what their local councillor has done for them and achieved over the past four years.
Candidates who make loud motherhood statements about creating jobs, improving our lifestyle, fixing roads and public transport, fostering growth – and water parks – do so at their own peril.
