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Great Springs Project seeks 2026 bond backing for Lower Colorado River Trail segments and land acquisitions
Summary
Great Springs Project presenters urged the Urban Transportation Commission to support two trail-construction segments for the Lower Colorado River and land acquisitions to complete the Lower Colorado River Trail, including a Bureau of Reclamation watershed grant and a pending $1.8 million TxDOT design proposal.
Great Springs Project officials on Oct. 7 told the City of Austin Urban Transportation Commission that the group is seeking city backing in the 2026 bond to build two urban-trail segments and to acquire land needed to complete the Lower Colorado River Trail.
The commission heard an update from Mikey Guralnick, a landscape architect and planner with Great Springs Project, who described the organization as a regional nonprofit working across the Edwards Aquifer recharge zone. "We work throughout the Edwards Aquifer recharge zone between Austin and San Antonio," Guralnick said.
The presentation focused on two elements the group asks the city to prioritize in the 2026 bond: (1) design and construction of an urban-trail segment through Reggie Guerrero Park, including an underpass beneath U.S. 183 to link two city parcels on the river’s south side, and (2) design and construction of a north-river segment that…
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