• Austin Recreation Center, 1301 Shoal Creek Blvd.
Last week, multiple city departments laid out the initial criteria for the sites. The city wants locations hosting 50 people to be 2 acres, while encampments hosting 100 people should be at least 4 acres.
City staff emphasized the list is preliminary. Some possible sites are on parkland that gets a lot of use like the Onion Creek Metropolitan, Mary Moore Seawright, Gus Garcia, Bull Creek, Patterson, Walnut Creek, Roy G. Guerrero and Palm Neighborhood parks.
Kimberly McNeeley, director of Parks and Recreation, told council the resolution that triggered the review suggested parkland could be on the table at least for the initial list.
Eighteen public parks are on a preliminary list of 45 possible locations for city-sanctioned encampments to shelter Austin s homeless population.
City staff members prepared the list and presented it Tuesday to the Austin City Council. The list of city-owned properties builds on the council s desire to urgently get people off the streets and into lawful encampments after voters chose to reinstate the public camping ban on May 1.
The parks include Walter E. Long, Commons Ford, Mary Moore Searight, Bull Creek, Roy G. Guerrero, John Treviño Jr., Circle C and Dick Nichols. Five recreation centers also made the list: Parque Zaragoza, Givens, Northwest, South Austin and Austin.
Austin Justice Coalition rallies at Huston-Tillotson, calls for continued social activism Hojun Choi, Austin American-Statesman
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A rally at Huston-Tillotson University on Thursday calling for a continued fight for social justice in Austin started with a modest crowd about a hundred people but ended with a bit of flare, as the dozens of people gathered at the event marched down Seventh Street to go vote.
The event, organized by the Austin Justice Coalition, featured guest speakers who both celebrated the guilty verdict in the Derek Chauvin murder trial, but also pointed to the need to fight systemic racism and inequalities experienced by people of color and other oppressed communities.