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Artist Access Program development remains paused
Recently the city paused a program for artist venue space in response to complaints about how it would balance the residential groups’ cultural identities and the programming that would take place in the individual cultural centers. Since 2011, the city…
Parks • By Jessi Devenyns • Apr 2, 2018
Commissions weigh use of parkland for stadium
In the face of a lawsuit brought against it by the Ohio attorney general and the city of Columbus to prevent it from relocating to Austin, Precourt Sports Ventures, the owner of the Columbus Crew SC Major League Soccer team,…
Parks • By Jessi Devenyns • Mar 15, 2018
Parks board vote calls for protection, improvement of Guerrero Park
Public opposition to the possible construction of a soccer stadium in East Austin has turned city leaders’ attention toward finding the funds to improve Roy G. Guerrero Colorado River Park. At Tuesday’s meeting of the Parks and Recreation Board, a…
Parks • By Chad Swiatecki • Mar 1, 2018
FEMA grants Austin funding to help fix Guerrero Park
Eight months ago, Austin’s Watershed Protection Department optimistically declared that the washed-out bridge over what’s known as Country Club Creek West in Roy G. Guerrero Colorado River Park would be completed by 2020. Unfortunately, now the plan has been shifted back…
Parks • By Jessi Devenyns • Feb 26, 2018
Council approves pools plan but funding questions remain
On Thursday, City Council overwhelmingly approved the Aquatic Master Plan, a 640-page document crafted by the Parks and Recreation Department that provides guidance for repairing and expanding the city’s aging system of pools. The plan says that the capital costs…
Parks • By Jack Craver • Feb 7, 2018
Parkland Events Task Force recommendations need more work
Almost exactly a year ago, the Parks and Recreation Department was tasked with implementing the final recommendations that were adopted by City Council from the 17-member Parkland Events Task Force. Established in 2015, the task force was given the assignment…
Parks • By Jessi Devenyns • Feb 6, 2018
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Nash Hernandez joint-use facility will remain indefinitely unopened
For seven years, East Austin’s Nash Hernandez Building has remained empty as the Austin Parks and Recreation Department and the Austin Police Department have worked to create a 9,600-square-foot joint-use facility for Austin’s park rangers and park patrol units. As…
Parks • By Jessi Devenyns • Jan 29, 2018
City likely to exceed its budget for pools, again
While City Council members have decidedly mixed opinions about a proposed $124 million bond aimed at upgrading Austin’s aquatics system, everybody acknowledges that the city’s pools are in desperate need of repair. The problem, of course, is that right now…
Parks • By Jack Craver • Jan 17, 2018
Dispute continues over program to expand artists' access to cultural centers
There appears to be little progress in a dispute between a group of Austin arts organizations who claim they’ve been mistreated and marginalized by the city’s Parks and Recreation Department in its work to expand operating hours and access at…
Parks • By Chad Swiatecki • Jan 17, 2018
Council divided over $124M pools proposal
City Council appears divided over a nine-figure bond that the Aquatic Master Plan Task Force has said is necessary to repair, upgrade and expand Austin’s pool system. The bond proposal comes four months after the Parks and Recreation Department unveiled…
Parks • By Jack Craver • Dec 13, 2017
Parks board urges concessions expansion
Taking a walk down one of the many beautiful trails of Butler Park, it’s easy to get lost in the beauty of the scenery and forget that Lady Bird Lake is also one of the city’s financial assets. Parks and…
Parks • By Joseph Caterine • Dec 7, 2017
Cyclists, motorcyclists get committee to postpone update to Balcones conservation plan
Dozens of mountain bikers, motorcyclists and others who enjoy using trails within the Balcones Canyonlands Preserve showed up at City Hall Friday ready for a fight over an update to the preserve management plan that they said endangers their access…
