Registration is open now for our next Greenbelt Guardians workday on Saturday November 02, the Austin Parks Foundation’s fall “It’s My Park Day” event. Please go here to sign up.
We’ll be working at the Homedale Access from 9:00 – 12:00 and we plan to focus on the removal of invasive plants in the area, primarily ligustrum and nandina. We’ll also do some trail repairs, patch a small section of rock wall that got damaged in the floods near the footbridge by the flats, pickup trash, and cleanup graffiti in the area.
The weather has finally cooled off some and hopefully we’ll get some real rain in the next few weeks. We’re looking forward to another good workday and hope that you can join us!
The following information was provided by the City of Austin and C3 Presents to help our neighborhood prepare for the upcoming Austin City Limits Music Festival:
The Austin City Limits Music Festival will take place over two consecutive weekends: Friday, October 4th 12pm to 10pm, Saturday & Sunday, October 5th-6th 11am to 10pm; and Friday, October 11th 12pm to 10pm, Saturday & Sunday, October 12th- 13th 11am-10pm. Please see the map below for closures. Go to www.austintexas.gov/parkevents for interactive park access maps.
Barton Springs Pool is open at all times during normal hours. During Festival days parking is protected at the south gate lot off Azie Morton Rd. for pool swimmers. In addition, Auditorium Shores will be open at all times for general and off-leash use.
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SCHEDULED CLOSURES
New for 2019: During set up days, Stratford Drive closure hours have been reduced from 7:00am – 10:00pm, to 9:00am – 6:00pm. Barton Springs Road will be closed on Festival show days to all vehicle traffic starting at Azie Morton Road. Cars will be able to make a U-turn on Barton Springs Road and be directed to South Lamar Blvd. This closure will reduce the amount of vehicles allowed into the neighborhoods and will create a safe crossing for pedestrians at Azie Morton Road and Barton Springs Road.
ZILKER PARK GREAT LAWN Sept. 23 – Oct. 30, closed to the public Oct. 18, Festival load out ends Oct. 19 – 30, park maintenance
AZIE MORTON STREET at Barton Hills & Barton Springs Rd Residential traffic will be allowed to exit the neighborhood on Azie Morton Rd., East Bound onto Barton Springs from 12:00am – 11:59am on both Fridays, and 12:00am – 8:00am on both Saturdays and Sundays of event weekends.
BARTON SPRINGS ROAD at Sterzing St & Rollingwood Dr Sept. 28 3:00am – 7:00am Oct. 3 9:00pm – Oct. 7 6:00am Oct. 10 9:00pm – Oct. 14 6:00am
ROADS REOPEN OCT. 7-10 During this time, a portion of the areas in and surrounding Zilker Park will be accessible to the public including Barton Springs, Rugby Field and the Botanical Gardens and Austin Nature and Science Center.
OPEN AREAS – pre-event days, and in between event weekends Zilker Park – Picnic Areas, Playscape (South of Barton SpringsRoad), Barton Springs Pool Facilities – Nature Center, Botanical Gardens, Splash Exhibit. In addition, Auditorium Shores and Butler Park will be open.
PARKING MANAGEMENT AND ENFORCEMENT
Due to the increase in restricted parking areas, appropriate signage will be installed in advance to allow time required for installation, and review/corrections prior to event days.
These signs are valid upon installation, PLEASE ADHERE TO THE SIGNAGE
The restricted parking area signage will stay UP in between weekends. They remain valid during this time period, but APD will not be actively patrolling between event weekends.
Extensive restricted parking is installed in Zilker, Bouldin and Barton Hills with active ticketing.
City of Rollingwood has no parking zones in effect as well. See City of Rollingwood website.
Barton Springs Road will close at Sterzing this year – no traffic allowed past Sterzing to Azie Morton area. All traffic on Barton Springs from Lamar to Sterzing should be local traffic only.
Drop off zones are near Austin High, Wallingwood, and Lee Barton Roads.
TIP! – If you need additional parking – park your OWN vehicle in LEGAL onstreet parking, and save a driveway for guests.
NIGHT CLOSURES: OCT 4-6 & 11-13 Between the hours of 9pm – 12am each evening of the Festival as patrons exit, the following roads will be closed to all vehicle access:
Barton Springs Road (between Lamar & Sterzing) Sterzing Street (between Barton Springs & Toomey) Toomey Road (between Sterzing and Lamar)
NEIGHBORHOOD INFO
Dedicated APD officers are patrolling and ticketing in the entire event andsurrounding area. Call in parking violations to the event operations center call-in line (see number below).
Neighborhood Call-In Line — 512-806-7903 Noise Complaints — Call the neighborhood call-in line, or 311. Festival Questions — info@aclfestival.com
EXAMPLES OF WHAT TO CALL IN
Parking within 30′ of the approach to a stop sign.
Parking or blocking within 15′ of a fire hydrant.
Parking left wheel to curb. (cars parked facing against traffic).
If a car blocks YOUR driveway. Some neighbors may permit people to block their OWN driveway.
Illegal vending/sales questions in the immediate festival area.
REMINDER: Make a quick note of the vehicle’s color, make and modelbefore you call!
DOCKLESS DEVICES
The Austin 311 app is the proper tool for dockless device reporting (scooters, dockless bikes, or similar).
Submit 311 requests for dockless devices that are blocking, impeding or causing safety issues in the City. This will allow the city to have a documented record of issues regarding operations.
When reporting – it is helpful to have the exact location, and an image of the issue. The 311 app is most helpful for this purpose as it allows you to geolocate the position of the complaint, and attach an image.
The first day of fall is just around the corner (Monday September 23rd is the autumnal equinox), but it sure doesn’t feel like summer is almost gone. We have two workdays coming up soon, Saturday September 28th is National Public Lands Day and Saturday November 2nd is the Austin Parks Foundation’s fall It’s My Park Day. Hopefully we’ll have some rain and cooler temperatures before then, if not by the end of September then certainly by the time November rolls around.
On Saturday Sept 28, we’ll be working at the Gus Fruh access from 9:00 until 12:00, doing some repairs and cleanup that are still leftover from the big flood we had this spring. The main task will be to rebuild and refurbish the steps on the far side of the creek that were rearranged by the flood. We’ll be moving big rocks, small rocks, and buckets of gravel, so expect a good workout. There’s also a lot of trimming that needs to be done and a few trail repairs on this side of the creek. We also plan to do some removal of invasive plants, clear some flood debris, and pickup any trash in the area.
On Saturday Nov 02, we’ll be working at the Homedale Access and we plan to focus on the removal of invasive plants in the area, primarily ligustrum and nandina. We’ll also do some trail repairs, patch a small section of rock wall that got damaged in the floods near the footbridge by the flats, pickup trash, and cleanup graffiti in the area.
Registration for It’s My Park Day will be via the APF’s GivePulse system later this month. We’ll send out a reminder when registration is open, but please go ahead and save the date on your calendar.
