OPINION: The newly released draft plan for Zilker Park is a recipe for how to ruin a park.
If you have ever asked yourself,"Should I be worried that a music festival in Zilker Park which charges $5,500 for Platinum Access may lead to bad decisions being made about the park," with the newly unveiled draft Zilker Vision Plan you have an unequivocal answer: Yes. The overarching goal of this plan is clear: to radically transform a public park that is heavily used for commercial events into one that is built to service those events and their wealthier patrons.
So it is something of a world-class head-scratcher that the Zilker Vision Plan proposes to reduce east-west traffic through the park to one laneadd parallel parking to the roadway. Thus, traffic would be funneled down to a single lane coming in and out, and that single lane would be blocked by cars waiting to parallel park. It does not take a traffic engineer to see that this would create massive bottlenecks.
The plan calls for an increase in the number of permanent parking spaces in the park by almost 90% to nearly 2,500 spaces. In addition to the abovementioned parallel parking on Barton Springs Road this would be mainly accomplished with the construction ofparking garages on park grounds: one on the site of the South Austin Baseball field on Azie Taylor Morton, one in a giant subterranean parking garage at the site of the polo fields, and one down by MoPac and Stratford Drive.
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