After a months-long period of wheeling and dealing that garnered such concessions as landscaping to block the venue from surrounding streets, groups including the Slaughter and Onion Creek Neighborhood Associations signed on to support the project. A recent Zilker Neighborhood Association candidates forum provided some interesting moments in the little-covered mayor's race. Since Mayor Watson did not attend, the meeting afforded lesser-known challengers Dale A. Reed, Leslie Cochran, and Jennifer Gale their moment in the spotlight. Reed said his years as a cab driver taught him a lot about Austin. So those of you looking to cast a Watson protest vote have the whole range of options laid out before you.
Gale wants to restore a sense of family to the city with a wide range of social programs.
Asked how he would protect water quality in the springs, Reed recommended more water treatment plants, presumably unaware that building a water treatment plant underneath the whole of the aquifer would be prohibitively expensive. Austin Chronicle Corp. All rights reserved.