Advocacy

ACC speaks up where Arlington’s land, water, air, and wildlife are decided — City Council, planning commissions, and Texas hearings.

ACC members around a conference table at an Arlington Parks Department session on the city comprehensive plan, a slide explaining how the plan is made on screen

How we show up

Persistent. Local. Evidence-based

For more than 55 years ACC members have testified at Arlington City Council, written to Texas Parks & Wildlife, and worked with neighbors on land-use, water, and wildlife issues that shape the daily experience of our city. We don’t lobby; we show up, we listen, and we speak up with the best available science.

If you have an issue you’d like the council to weigh in on — a development, a drainage concern, a tree-canopy question — email the board and bring it to a monthly meeting.

Where we focus

Current issues

A green Arlington park landscape cared for by ACC

Land use & development

Reviewing zoning, plat, and variance items where natural features, drainage, or tree canopy are at stake.

A quiet creek running over rock ledges through an Arlington natural area

Water & watersheds

Stormwater quality, creek and wetland health, drought response, and the long-term water future of the Metroplex.

Open prairie meadow at Blackland Prairie Nature Preserve

Parks & native habitat

Protecting prairies, woodlands, and wildlife corridors in our parks — including ongoing work at the Molly Hollar Wildscape, one of the FAUNA groups we convene.