Milwood and Walnut Crossing Neighborhood Associations are partnering with local apartment communities on a general cleanup of Balcones Park for IT’S MY PARK DAY March 2nd from 9-12. Details to follow in the next few days. A follow-up event is also planned for April 13th, Austin Clean Sweep 2013, to address issues outside the park. We hope to see you there!
“For Austin Parks” is dedicated to promoting, supporting, and protecting Austin city parks. The following release pertains to allowing businesses to use city parking lots.
Good Afternoon:
As you may know, the Austin City Council recently passed a resolution to create a new ordinance that would allow businesses located within 1,000 feet of city parks to use park parking lots to meet minimum parking requirements.
Over 3,200 businesses are located within 1,000 feet of city parks throughout the city! If each of these businesses use just 20 parking spaces at these parks, more than 64,000 existing park parking spaces will be unavailable to park users. There’s no doubt that if this ordinance passes, park users will have to compete with businesses to park at city parks.
Taxpayers pay for park parking lots. Allowing businesses near parks to use park parking lots provides them with parking at taxpayers expense and is unfair to other businesses. Using park parking lots for commercial business purposes is a bad precedent and will further increase the commercialization of our parks.
For more information and/or to sign a petition, please visit the For Austin Parks facebook page.
David King
For Austin Parks!
Zilker Neighborhood
Austin, TX
A Hiking Trails Near Milwood page has recently been added to our neighborhood website under the drop down menu “neighborhood.”
Enjoy our trails!
The long-delayed Northern Walnut Creek Trail project was mentioned in an article on the Austin American-Statesman this past Friday.
http://www.statesman.com/news/news/price-tag-rising-for-long-delayed-north-austin-tra/nWDNF/
Summitt Elementary has lost their afternoon crossing guard at Amherst and Mosley and are in desperate need to hire someone as soon as possible. If you can spare one hour and get paid doing so, you are who they need!
CROSSING GUARD NEEDED
2:25 – 3:35 MONDAY – FRIDAY
$15.00/DAY
CONTACT:
CHRISTI SHORES
CHILD SAFETY PROGRAM SUPERVISOR
aqua12070@yahoo.com
Marty Toohey, American-Statesman staff writer, summarizes the recent controversy surrounding the proposal to “to allow lobbyists a prominent role in rewriting the city land-use code.”
http://www.statesman.com/news/news/council-drop-lobbyists-from-code-rewrite-committee/nWCCF/
Austinites for Georgraphic Representation
www.TrustAustin.org
Office Address: 7537 Cameron Road (call ahead)
Mailing address: 6705 Hwy 290 West Suite 502 #173, Austin, TX 78735
512-692-7644
