Brackenridge Park

Environmentalists and others have fought the plan for roughly a year, calling it excessive and damaging to wildlife.

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“I want to validate what you said about the birds,” an assistant city manager said. “We wrote [the project description] ourselves. It was our mistake. But we have to own it.”

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Statements by Texas Historical Commission staff released under a public information request don’t jibe with city claims that trees must be removed to fix a river wall.

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