Save Zilker

🐶Pup parent reminder ⚠️ With the Great Lawn closed for ACL you may be looking for nearby parks to play. If you go to Auditorium Shores, Red Bud, or elsewhere by the lake, please remember toxic algae is still present in Town Lake and your pup should not enter or drink the water.

Stay safe y’all 🎾

Where does Austin desperately need to invest in parks? 📍East Austin.

Trust for Public Land mapped park investment needs across Austin to address park access, climate, equity, and health. With darker purple indicating higher need, you can see how dark purple East Austin is compared to West.

Low income Austinites have access to 55% less park space than higher income residents.

The Zilker Vision Plan is a $200M development plan for a park people are largely already happy with, in an area with disproportionately high access to parks.

We do not need $200M in parking garages and amphitheaters on Zilker. We need $200M in investments into neighborhood parks throughout Austin so everyone can have daily access to parks, nature and outdoor recreation.

🆘 You will not get to vote on the Zilker Vision Plan. You must email your elected city council representative and tell them how you’d like them to vote.

📣 Link to email City Council in bio!

🌊We must protect Barton Springs. In 2022 Las Moras Springs and Jacob’s Well ran dry 🕳️. Our aquifer is under increasing stress from a boom in population, water demands, and ongoing development.

Zilker is fragile and essential for the health of Barton Springs. Frankly, no one fully understands the consequences of ongoing human influence on and in the aquifer, which is why we feel it isn’t even worth the risks the Vision Plan proposes.

More than 70% of the plan is for intensive and unnecessary construction, excavation, and concrete.

❌Parking garages, an amphitheater on the Great Law , a welcome center, sidewalks, terraces, and 3 new bridges over our waterway.

We’d rather just have our Springs.

Neither the Vision Plan or City Council can guarantee there won’t be irreparable consequences to these development plans, it shouldn’t even be on the table.

📣 Email City Council to vote against the Zilker Vision Plan. Link in bio.