For Immediate Release January 19, 2021 Save Austin Now Collects 30k+ Signed Petitions, Submits 24k+ Validated Petitions to Put Camping Ban on May Ballot City Clerk’s Office Will Begin Process to Validate at Least 20,000 Signatures AUSTIN, TX — Today Save Austin Now, a nonpartisan educational nonprofit made up of organizations and concerned citizens, announced that they collected more than 30,000 signed petitions since Dec. 1 and submitted more than 24,000 validated petitions to the City Clerk to put reinstate of the camping ban on the May 2021 ballot. The City Clerk’s office will now begin their validation process, which could take several weeks. If validated, the ordinance will be on the May ballot. The city has a Feb. 12 deadline to approve ballot language for the May ballot. On July 20, 2019, Save Austin Now submitted ~24,500 signed petitions to the City Clerk to make the November 2020 ballot. On August 5, 18 days later, the Clerk’s office said they were 900 shy of 20,000. Sav...