Austinist: The Austin 2007 Liveable Vision Awards

lahipster

Fri, 18 May 2007 19:30:40 -0600

boycott this corporate acl festival taking hush money from AMD(city council taking bribe money ) until they stop the new office complex on has Polluted the Barton Springs watershed in Zilker Park with huge amounts of sediment that washed off their sites with modest rains on March 26Th(1.49 inches at Camp Mabry and 1.2 inches at the airport). It was enough to wash untold amounts of construction pollution off two large building sites in the fragile Barton Springs watershed. Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) polluted the Barton Springs segment of the Edwards Aquifer with dirty runoff leaving their construction sites. Fortunately, we were there to take pictures and video of the pollution. Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is building an 860,000 square foot office complex in the Barton Springs watershed. Rains on March 26Th washed construction sediment over, around, and literally through AMD's erosion and sedimentation "controls." The result is muddy, silt-laden water leaving the site and flowing into a tributary of the Barton Springs segment of the Edwards Aquifer. Save Our Springs Alliance and many other groups and thousands of citizens urged AMD not to move to the Barton Springs watershed, in part because of concerns that they would pollute the aquifer and springs during construction. AMD insisted that they would their project would be "green.The City of Austin has reportedly given AMD a notice of violation of city rules, but the City did not issue a stop-work order or fine AMD. please tell all the bands this there will be a protest this year will presidential hopefuls coming to Austin where the fuck you going to cool off if it gets into the 100,s like most years Visit the SOS Alliance Website 221 E. 9Th Street, Suite 300, Austin, TX 78701

ol'pappy

Fri, 18 May 2007 11:18:45 -0600

Oh yeah, and Downtown. I like that show but it's all so chipper and out of touch with reality.

ol'pappy

Fri, 18 May 2007 11:17:31 -0600

Yeah, all those award winners suck. I have no idea why the St. Johns neighborhood is winning an award since it's still crack city over there. The Mueller project is turning out to be as Keep Austin Homogeneous as possible with the Best Buy and the Shoe Carnival and Bed Bath and Beyond (cause we need 800 of those places) and the "your choice of our wide selection of 5 different types of house" (don't sneeze or they may go up another $10,000) available. And Save Town Lake doesn't want to actually save town lake as they want to keep Travis Heights white and exclusive. So yeah. Boo & hiss.

argh

Fri, 18 May 2007 10:54:41 -0600

RG4N? Squeakiest Wheel award?

M1EK

Fri, 18 May 2007 10:10:29 -0600

Please, no. RG4N's antics have devolved into simply pushing for the Rule of Men over the Rule of Law without thinking about what that might mean in the long-run (hint: next time Wal-Mart needs a zoning change for a new store, you'll wish you had defended the Rule of Law wrt the big box ordinance).