Recreate Asheville: Shaping Our City's Parks
Recreate Asheville: Shaping Our City's Parks
Help unlock the power of our community by building Recreate Asheville: Shaping Our City’s Parks, a road map to guide recreation programs, sports and leisure spaces, and parks for future generations. This is an important opportunity for Ashevillians to create a long-term vision and help inform how projects are prioritized to meet the modern needs of our city – from major improvements to existing parks (beyond just maintenance and repairs) to strategies that use recreation programs to build stronger neighborhoods.
Happening Now
During Phase 1: Community Needs Assessment, community members shared needs, opportunities, and feedback related to the current state of parks and recreation in Asheville through surveys and workshops. That information was combined with anticipated future needs and comparisons to similarly sized cities' parks and recreation systems to define our community's needs.
During Phase 2: Drafting Plan Recommendations, we reported back what we heard during Phase 1, shared how it's driving draft plan ideas and recommendations, and asked for additional community feedback through an online survey, virtual meeting, four in-person community workshops, and neighborhood meetings between March 27-April 15. Information and community feedback from both phases are being used to draft the plan.
Happening Next
Our community will review and comment (tentatively scheduled from May 20-June 2) on a drafted vision plan created using information from Phase 1 and feedback from Phase 2 to create the final plan, Recreate Asheville: Shaping Our City's Parks.