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According to the article, this event has been happening almost weekly for years

1) Does this mean the developers did not take this into consideration and have a plan on how to deal with this or handle it?

2) Does it mean the folks buying the apartments (or renting) did not do their due diligence and find out this is a weekly event?

Takeaways here (for all of us reading this story) - do you research before you move to a place (rent or buy). Go there on a weekday and a weekend. Ask current residents about the place or other folks who live nearby about the place. It will save you a ton of hassle later on.

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This is an intentional tactic. Buy land at a discount near a nuisance, sue/threaten everyone around you into oblivion, and then enjoy your now-significantly-more-profitable house/condo/apartment building.

This has repeatedly happened with the music venues, which caused them to leave that part of the city. It happened with a really nice gun range. It happened with several bars. Unfortunately the car meetup is probably doomed.

> near a nuisance

if they were a nuisance, then getting rid of it surely isn't an issue?

The fact that there exists residential places near "nuisances" is the root cause of the problem isnt it?

According to the article this is simply a weekly Saturday BBQ at a school yard.

It's sort of supposed to happen where residents live. Of course this being USA people go there by car (and when a lot of people who know each other go in a procession, who also happen to love their cars, it can get loud), of course this being the 21. century somehow even just built luxury apartments are not noise-proofed sufficiently.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/The+Weaver/@30.2522831,-97...

This looks like a nice park at the river, which also happens to be the backyard of a middle school.

So it seems The Weaver was built next to a 3+3 + 4 + 4 lane highway/interstate and a school (anyone have any experience with loudness levels at recess?) and now the residents are complaining about the one thing they feel is easiest to change. The BBQ.

This should be the top comment

> have a plan on how to deal with this or handle it?

Seems the plan is around the expectation that the newcomers, being white and rich, are going to get their way in the end. Which I truly hope not.

Austin has a long tradition of class-based segregation in housing for mid-to-upper-class white people. The majority of the area is what's called "master planned", which is designed specifically to segregate by net worth/income.

I would offer odds on how this turns out, especially considering that the burnouts and stuff associated with car club meets are de jure illegal. All it takes is a cop with a desire to ruin something good.

From the article - [The apartment building] promises renters access to a “community that is rich in history and tradition”.

They just assumed that these traditions must be ones that they would like.

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