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Brackenridge Tract secrecy provision dumped
Posted: Tue, 10 May 2011 04:44 PM - 9,800 Readers
By: Mike Ward
The Texas Senate has stripped provisions from two separate bills that
could have allowed the University of Texas to keep secret details of
possible redevelopment of the Brackenridge Tract in West Austin.
On Monday, the Senate took out a provision in Senate Bill 1581 and today struck a similar provision in Senate Bill 5.
Senate Higher Education Committee Chairman Judith Zaffirini,
D-Laredo, said the provisions would have added wording to current law
allowing universities to keep confidential the details of pending
development projects, including the approximately 500-acre Brackenridge
Tract.
Discussion for several years about developing the UT-owned West
Austin site, located along Lake Austin Boulevard near Exposition
Boulevard, has triggered protest from neighbors and various community
leaders who want the Lions Municipal Golf Course and the West Austin
Youth Association sports center to remain.
“I do not support what the provision would do,” she said, in
accepting an amendment from Sen. Kirk Watson, D-Austin, on SB 5 to
remove the wording.
Zaffirini said she was unaware what the provision would do until a reporter raised a question about it.
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