You can't make this stuff up. The school board busts the budget to build a parking lot that will flood the school. The parking lot gets flooded during construction, adding to the costs. For more, read about the May 12 flood here and the Grand Mistake here.
In a November 10, 2022 email to the District's lawyers and Superintendent DeSpain and President Flores, I said this lot "will add 28,365 square feet of new impervious cover that will drain into the basin that will flood my property. Using the standard .62 multiplier for runoff, this equates to an additional 17,586.3 gallons of rainwater per 1 inch of rain water that will potentially flood my property, as well as the District's new playground and football field."
I also said in that same November 10 email "you might be aware of how the City of Austin manages Zilker Park and the masses of cars that park on grass while attending events throughout the year. No doubt hundreds of thousands of folks attend events in the park and park without a single square foot of pavement to park on. The City manages it as a green space because its parking needs are sporadic, much as the case will be when parking is needed at the District's new gym. A grass parking system will also avoid even more unnecessary flooding of the football field."