Mueller Lake Park Outdoor Amphitheater
Don't Know What You've Got …
RECEIVED Tue., June 5, 2018
Dear Editor,
Andrew Zilker donated the land Zilker Park sits on for use as parkland. Later, the construction of Stratford Drive removed some of that parkland. Following that, MoPac sliced the park in two. Now the Austin City Limits Festival wants to dump gravel on part of the park to convert it into a parking lot [“Zilker Park: Paved Paradise, or Vice Versa,” News, June 1]. If we continue catering to cars, eventually we won’t have any parkland left.
My suggestion: Rent buses to take folks from Barton Creek Square Mall to music venues. And if the Parks Department is having trouble growing sod on the site, I suggest they contact David Mahler. He’s the one who converted a former garbage dump into the wondrous space now known as Wild Basin.
Andrew Zilker donated the land Zilker Park sits on for use as parkland. Later, the construction of Stratford Drive removed some of that parkland. Following that, MoPac sliced the park in two. Now the Austin City Limits Festival wants to dump gravel on part of the park to convert it into a parking lot [“Zilker Park: Paved Paradise, or Vice Versa,” News, June 1]. If we continue catering to cars, eventually we won’t have any parkland left.
My suggestion: Rent buses to take folks from Barton Creek Square Mall to music venues. And if the Parks Department is having trouble growing sod on the site, I suggest they contact David Mahler. He’s the one who converted a former garbage dump into the wondrous space now known as Wild Basin.
Philip Russell
