Saving Hyde Park from pedestrians and bicyclists

Courtesy AustinContrarian  Thu, 04/24/2008 - 10:58pm

Neighborhoods impose conditions on new development all the time.  Some of the conditions are sensible.  Some are strange.  Some are merely mildly irritating.  But a "no pedestrian/bicyclist" provision?

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department wants to sell off a tract abutting the UT Intramural Fields (the Game Warden Academy site).  The tract borders Hyde Park, with 51st Street running along the eastern border and Rowena Street along the southern border.  50th Street dead-ends in the center of the tract's...


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