Parks
Tuesday, June 12, 2018 by Chad Swiatecki
Parks
City seeks input to tee up Dougherty redevelopment at Butler Shores
Voters will decide in November if the city will receive bond funds to build a replacement for the Dougherty Arts Center, but a public forum next week is intended to give city leaders input on their plan to build a…
Friday, June 8, 2018 by Jessi Devenyns
Parks
Environmental Commission has questions about Zilker Park’s proposed parking lot
After the Parks and Recreation Board deferred the Zilker Park Stratford Drive Landfill Redevelopment Project to the Environmental Commission for review hoping for some clarity as to environmental repercussions, the waters only muddied further.Concerns about leaching, automotive abuse of the…
Wednesday, June 6, 2018 by Caleb Pritchard
Parks
PARD patching up two pools as summer sun bears down
As the summer heat tightens its grip on Austin, the city is scrambling to get two public pools sidelined last year by severe leaks back into serviceable shape.On Monday, the Parks and Recreation Department’s acting director, Kimberly McNeeley, sent a…
Thursday, May 24, 2018 by Jessi Devenyns
Parks
Zilker Park staging area in line to become a parking lot
For years, the back end of the swath of parkland used for the Austin City Limits Festival, the Trail of Lights and the Kite Festival has been repurposed as a sometimes staging area and sometimes parking lot. However, until now,…
Tuesday, May 8, 2018 by Mose Buchele
Parks
Section of Shoal Creek Hike and Bike Trail suffers massive storm damage
Jessica Zarowitz was in for a surprise while walking her dog, Lady Bird, along the Shoal Creek Hike and Bike Trail on Monday: The trail that had been there for years suddenly wasn’t. Trees had fallen over it, and the…
