Public Notice: Zilker Park Vision Still Cloudy
It’s hard planning for the future, when humans insist on living in the present
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The city Parks and Recreation Department and lead consultants Design Workshop presented the latest iteration of the Zilker Metropolitan Park Vision Plan Tuesday night, Feb. 15, to a Zoom crowd of a little over 100 – and if that seems like a small sample to be giving feedback on such an iconic piece of land in a city of over a million people, yes, that point was noted by several participants. But public outreach is hard in the best of times, and these are not they.
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If you have to pick one, the only way to go is A.
Concept A: Stitch. This one features the single most dramatic feature presented in any of the plans: a land bridge connecting the two sides of the park – essentially a large man-made hill built over Barton Springs road, with the road tunneling through it, and a massive 1,700-car underground parking garage nearby. That enables the removal of most all of the current small lots scattered around the park and a number of roads as well; both concepts A and B would remove vehicular traffic from Lou Neff Road, (the circle drive around the Great Lawn), and reconfigure Stratford Drive to run along MoPac instead of through the park.
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