Free Zilker Blog
WE WON! Pool Fees to NOT Increase Dramatically in Current Budget
Make Your Voice Heard Before Thursday, August 14th! ANOTHER VICTORY WON BY FREE ZILKER AND FRIENDS! City officials cited “some question and concern” as the ultimate factors leading to the rescinded proposal. “We realize there has been some question and concern about...
Free Zilker and Allies Meet with City Manager Broadnax Regarding Hiring of New Parks Director
The Free Zilker Coalition representatives, along with East Town Lake Citizens Neighborhood Association and Deep Holly Advocates, met with our new City Manager T.C. Broadnax on June 24th. Our mission was twofold: introduce the new City Manager to parks issues dear to...
Free Zilker and Allies Fight Expedition School Takeover of Chicano Park
Although The Expedition School (TES) proposal to build a boating concession on the Chicano Park Lagoon has been presented as a “done deal,” Free Zilker Coalition and allies are exposing it as an illegal “dirty deal.” This is a developing story. We ask that you read...
Zilker Park is being “Loved to Death” by The Austin Parks Foundation, ACL Festival, and Friends
Zilker Park is being “Loved to Death” by The Austin Parks Foundation, ACL Festival and Friends The Fleecing of Austin Tax-payer and the 10-Years Long “Venue Vision Plan” and Why You Should Care Editor’s Note: the following article is long and extensively...
Excessive Impervious Cover Limit Threatens Holly Shores/Edward Rendon Park
In late 2016, while researching a neighborhood property, East Town Lake Citizens Neighborhood Association (ETLCNA) members encountered a surprising proposed amendment to the city’s Waterfront Overlay. We soon discovered it had bypassed proper channels and was ready to...
Parks board to ask Council to explain why it bypassed public input on a Lady Bird Lake boat rental concession
Lady Bird Lake boat rental concession Expedition School
Austin Residents Demand to be Heard!
Austin residents are rising. We are, at last, finished allowing private and special interests to run this city. We are done with: * Urging our city council to consider our best interests only to see private gain as the main driver of planning and...
The Trails Conservancy Succeeds in Removing Protections for Lady Bird Lake—An In-Depth Account
On March 7th, environmental protection rollbacks demanded by The Trail Conservancy (TTC) were approved by Austin City Council. Three members (R. Alter, A. Alter and M. Kelly) left the dais without explanation during the public testimony and did not return to vote....
The Fight to Save Brackenridge Park in San Antonio—Free Zilker Allies with First Nations Leaders
Brackenridge Park Conservancy, a nonprofit that was "hired" by the City of San Antonio to be stewards of Brackenridge Park, seems to be more interested in pleasing its donors—who appear to be tied to private interests. The planned development of this National...
East Austin Parks Activists and Free Zilker Defend Festival Beach Master Plan
Members of Deep Holly Advocates and East Austin stakeholders reached out to Free Zilker a few months ago asking for support. We felt we had to assist them because their cause mirrors our own: to stop moneyed interests that undermine the public trust to carve up Austin...