The only thing left on YouTube of this documentary about the proposed development of Austin's Zilker Park is its trailer--someone told YouTube that the content violated copyright law, but the content is just a city meeting filled with citizen protests.

As an austin native this is beyond tragic and sad. I returned to Austin after a number of years in New York. Although I still like my home town it's sad to see how much has gone away and been replaced with things finance bros or transplants from CA might like.

Zilker is just another domino to fall in what I used to love and remember from my time growing up in austin.

I understand the sentiment but don’t you understand now why people don’t like immigration.

As someone who lived in Austin and has seen the entire economy running on the back of mexican workers cleaning the streets, cutting the trees, caring for the everyone’s lawn, doing pest control, etc.

Lol.

You like immigration alright, you just like to blame foreigners for the results of your own policy decisions.

It’s not foreigners privatizing the park, it’s your own most patriotic texan politicians you keep voting in over and over. (

Ding ding ding.

I encounter this personally. Family knows the owner of a construction company and almond orchard. They absolutely love the immigrants who cheaply tend to the trees or nail in trusses, he calls them the “good ones”, yet immigration is ruining the country and we need a border wall to keep it safe.

It’s about enough to make me lose hope for humanity.

There’s nothing inconsistent about that—it’s about individuals versus large scale migration of people from a different culture. I’m south Asian. I’d way rather go to a south Asian wedding than a white American wedding. But I’d not want to live in a town run by people from South Asia.

You’re complaining about foreigners with a different culture coming and changing the place you’re from. The only difference is your preferences about the culture of the people coming in and the change they bring.

I wasn’t complaining at all.

I mean OP: “Although I still like my home town it's sad to see how much has gone away and been replaced with things finance bros or transplants from CA might like.”

“Transplants” bring change. It’s okay not to like that.

Take the current situation with San Francisco as a clear example of where this leads.

Why is this link a Google search result, that immediately self-closes the tab upon clicking? This is on Firefox on Mac.

The film had been on YouTube--I simply had used a Google search to get to the trailer. A new version of the film has been uploaded now--though the questions about Austin's mayor and city council remain. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NwJLvfPsYE

Update: Mayor Watson just shelved the Zilker Vision Plan.