Ohh please. They're building 1,100 units of housing for students and 125 unit for the homeless while preserving the park for community use.
These "Save XYZ" people are always the same. They want nothing to change and they consider housing to be displacement.
They're regressivism/conservatism/urban sprawl disguised as progressive action. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Students need housing. The homeless need housing. This is land that UC owns and can use for this. It's expensive enough to build housing as it is.
Of all water usage, residential is ~2/3rds and commercial is 1/3rd. It's probably the same in Austin. Go research it.
Everyone needs to conserve water.