Balcones Canyonland Preserve moving to take unilateral control over Barton Creek Greenbelt, Emma Long Metropolitan Park, and Bull Creek Park

This is Black or White.

The Balcones Canyonland Preserve (BCP) Staff is trying to have a regulation approved by City and County government that would give them the absolute power to close Austin’s three largest parks with no reasons needed. The citizens or any local or federal government would not be able to stop them.

The major parks threatened are The Barton Creek Greenbelt, Emma Long Metropolitan Park, and Bull Creek Park.

Until now, it has been a long-term, little by little, campaign to kick people out of the park. This time, the BCP staff is targeting all the largest parks and their users in one single move. This creates an opportunity for all of us to weigh in and be unified.

Our response to this attempt has to be massive; we have to ask City and County government to not approve this new rule. Please complete these three steps and have all your friends and their friends come to this website.

Weigh in through >>> BestAustin.com

What is the rationale behind a move like this?

To be honest, I don’t know much about this. I just saw this floating around FB and thought it sounded threatening enough to share here.