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ACL, the Parks Department, and Austin Parks Foundation are trying to permanently pave over eight (8) acres of Zilker Park in order to convert temporary event parking into permanent parking. Please see the letter from Save Our Springs to the Mayor, Council, and the City Manager for the details. pdf Letter to Mayor, Council, City Manager, PARD to halt parking lot in Zilker (116 KB)  And please join us in asking that they stop this rush to pave our park land without City Council action, a parking plan for Zilker Park, and a meaningful public review process. Send your message to the Mayor and the entire council here. 

 

 

Next Thursday, May 24th, the Austin City Council will consider whether or not to place the CodeNEXT initiative on the ballot.  This is an important hearing for citizen rights of community initiated lawmaking under the City Charter.  The hearing will likely be in the evening, and Save Our Springs encourages everyone to attend the hearing and urge council to put the initiative on the ballot as the law requires.
 
Mayor Pro Tem Tovo and Councilmembers Pool, Houston, and Alter are sponsoring an item to put the initiative on the ballot.  Several of the other council members, including the Mayor, Councilmembers Kitchen and Garza, all of whom are lawyers, have been hostile to calling the required election. They point to a weak legal opinion from their outside attorney that somehow ignores both key case law and the most relevant facts.  
 
As Yogi Berra famously said, this is deja vu all over again. In 1992 a narrow majority, pro-developer city council refused to put the SOS ordinance on the ballot. They managed to delay the vote, but it only helped us show the voters that development interests had too much power at City Hall.  Voters approved the SOS ordinance by a 64% majority.   

Exhumed from the archives!  We're happy to present this 1992 epic legendary all-star recording of Austin's music community coming together to sing the praises of The Soul of Austin, Barton Springs.

Featuring the talents of Bill Oliver, Bob Livingston, Jerry Jeff Walker, Marcia Ball,  Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Butch Hancock, Ponty Bone, Paul Pearcy, Steven Fromholz, Joe Ely, John Inmon, David Halley, Sarah Elizabeth Campbell, Doug Powell, Bobby Bridger, Tomas Ramirez, Riley Osbourn, and Mitch WatkinsChorus: all of the above plus:Aunt Pearl (Joe Sears), Didi Snavely (Jaston Williams) of Greater Tuna, Susan Lindfore, Christine Albert, Connie Hancock, Tommy Pierce, Monty Montgomery, Jim Ellinger (Wheatsville), Jeri Arsenault, Cecelia Nasti & Bryan Beck (KGSR radio), Jenny Clark (ACTV), Helen Ballew (Hill Country Foundation), Jennie Hamilton (SOS Coalition) - "Barton Springs Eternal" is now available for download from our new Bandcamp page:

Grab the song in any file format you like for as little as a dollar - all proceeds from the sales of this track go to Save Our Springs Alliance and Save Barton Creek Association to support our round-the-clock work to preserve our clean water and the Austin way of life.

Here is the original all-star video recording of the studio session, followed by "I Sung for the Springs" video by Jenny Clark about the making of the music video. These videos were made possible by the generosity of Jenny Clark.

 

 

Tomorrow the Austin City Council has a very important item (#10) up for consideration, which will decide whether real estate profits will continue to dominate our City’s land use planning.

In 1994, Austin voters chose to amend the City Charter to limit the influence the real estate and development industries has on our city planning. The charter amendment mandated that at least two-thirds (⅔) of the Planning Commission must be “lay members not connected directly or indirectly to real estate and land development” (i.e., they must be everyday Austinites that don’t benefit from development profits).

The Austin City Council has chosen to ignore this mandate by appointing 7 (out of 13) members from the real estate and development industries. That means that despite the voter-mandate, the Austin City Council has chosen to give the real estate and development industries majority control of the Planning Commission.

On Wednesday, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) decided who can challenge a controversial plan would allow Dripping Springs to dump nearly a million gallons of treated sewage a day into Onion Creek, a major source of water for the Edwards Aquifer and Barton Springs. TCEQ commissioners will allow Save Our Springs Alliance,  Save Barton Creek Association, Protect Our Water, and several individual landowners to participate in a "contested case hearing" on whether to grant Dripping Springs the permit. The commissioners also decided that the City of Austin could proceed to the hearing for a determination of its affected status.

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