Freaknik and GBP are compliments to their hosts. People want to go where places are well-kept, pretty, relaxing, public, and fun. Galveston's seawall qualifies.
You are leading by example. You are showing good behavior and you are demonstrating that keeping your town clean makes everyone enjoy it.
That may be one of the few positive examples that many of your guests ever see.
That being said, close enough streets and people will find a more hospitable place to cruise around in their mac'ed out vehicles (and the co-existent problems of lewdness and disorderliness will leave with them).
But for whatever it's worth, Galveston is known as a cool place because so far you haven't thrown the kids out yet.
For me, I like Gaido's, but I have no desire to be anywhere near GBP week. Hazards of living in a tourist town, I guess. We don't have much of that sort of issue out here in 'Bama!
Exactamento. Kids, families, singles looking for fun, fishermen, you name it...are welcomed every day of the year. We have probably a million tourist a year.
But for Freepers who "don't get it", just imagine how you would feel (and how many hours today you would spend on FreeRepublic) if it was your town. You would be yelling with pitchforks down at City Hall. That's just how tolerant we are, but this scene has GOT to stop.