• Donate
  • About Us
    • Our Story
    • Our Team
  • GET INVOLVED
    • Volunteer opportunities
    • Careers
  • What We Do
    • Eco-tours & Snorkel Tours
    • Our Work
    • Education & Outreach
  • News
  • Resources
Save Our Springs Alliance
  • Donate
  • About Us
    • Our Story
    • Our Team
  • GET INVOLVED
    • Volunteer opportunities
    • Careers
  • What We Do
    • Eco-tours & Snorkel Tours
    • Our Work
    • Education & Outreach
  • News
  • Resources

Please help Save Lady Bird Lake, lakefront park land, and our tax dollars

7/26/2022

 
Picture
We wrote a few weeks back on one of the very worst Planned Unit Development (PUD) zoning cases since the infamous Barton Creek PUD of 1990.  The so-called “Statesman PUD” is back on the city council agenda for next Thursday, July 28, Items 131 and 132. 

The Statesman PUD tract is 19 acres on the south shore of Lady Bird Lake, on the east side of the Congress Ave bat bridge.  If approved as proposed it would include 1300 units of ultra-luxury condos, 1 hotel, 1.5 million square feet of office, and 150,000 sq. ft. of retail in a set of towers reaching up to 525 feet in the air.  In effect, downtown would jump across the lake, with more development of a similar kind to follow along Barton Springs Road and Riverside.

Neighbors, environmentalists, park advocates, and fiscal conservatives are not really opposing the massive increase in density.  Rather the owners—some of the richest people in the world—are demanding  tens of millions of taxpayer subsidies for the project.  They also want to cheat us out of park land that would, under standard city rules, be required to be dedicated to the public. To compound the outrage, they want to retain management control of the too-little-park-land they are dedicating while cutting off existing public access to the lake along the Congress Ave. sidewalk. 

With your help and action by Councilmember Kathie Tovo  the matter was delayed in June because there was no draft ordinance and a giant haystack of staff backup documents contained almost none of the needles of important details stitching this  “welfare for the ultra-rich” scheme together. 
Its back now on next Thursday’s agenda and we need your help again to have it delayed and then denied in its current form.

Please take a few minutes to send an email to City Council to insist that it be (a) postponed again until all of the public’s questions are answered,(b) all of the taxpayer subsidies are removed, and (c) all of the park land dedication normally required is granted to the public without the private developers’ retaining control and limiting access to this “public” park land.

Please also share this with friends, neighbors and family who might join in to fix this mess. Stay tuned and we will provide the link to speak at the meeting, in person or remotely, starting on Monday.   
​

Here are the email addresses for the Mayor and council. 
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]

Comments are closed.

    Archives

    June 2025
    May 2025
    April 2025
    March 2025
    February 2025
    January 2025
    December 2024
    November 2024
    October 2024
    September 2024
    August 2024
    July 2024
    June 2024
    May 2024
    April 2024
    March 2024
    February 2024
    January 2024
    December 2023
    November 2023
    October 2023
    September 2023
    August 2023
    July 2023
    June 2023
    May 2023
    April 2023
    March 2023
    January 2023
    December 2022
    November 2022
    October 2022
    August 2022
    July 2022
    June 2022
    May 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    April 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

Save Our Springs Alliance

Picture
p: 512-477-2320 |  f: 512-477-6410
​​[email protected]
3
201 Menchaca Rd. Austin TX 78704

Quick Links

News
​Contact Us
​Newsletter Signup
Donate

SOS is a 501 c3 non profit and  your donation is tax deductible ​
  • Donate
  • About Us
    • Our Story
    • Our Team
  • GET INVOLVED
    • Volunteer opportunities
    • Careers
  • What We Do
    • Eco-tours & Snorkel Tours
    • Our Work
    • Education & Outreach
  • News
  • Resources