DEPARTMENT: Parks and Recreation
DEPARTMENT HEAD: Xavier D. Urrutia, Director
COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: City Wide
SUBJECT:
Briefing on the Final Draft SA Parks System Plan and Smoke/Tobacco-Free Parks
SUMMARY:
Briefing and update on the Final Draft SA Parks System Plan and Smoke/Tobacco-Free Parks
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
The SA Parks System Plan will provide a foundation to guide future planning decisions impacting service delivery to the citizens of San Antonio concerning capital improvement needs, operations and recreation programs. The plan will also include an assessment of the Parks and Recreation Department's Urban Forestry Program and will demonstrate consistency and implementation of the City's SA Tomorrow Plan: Comprehensive, Sustainability and Multimodal Transportation Plans. The consultant team includes Bender Wells Clark Design along with MIG, Inc. and Ximenes & Associates, Inc.
From October 2017 through January 2018 the consultant project team conducted seven community workshops designed to provide the public with an opportunity to inform the consultant team their priorities for the park system through a series park related activities. Translation services were offered at the workshops and all activities were provided in English and Spanish. To supplement this input, an on-line and paper survey was made available to the public. Five free community events were held at various parks to promote the public workshops and offer the community an opportunity to complete the survey. Park staff attended various city organized public events to promote the System Plan and solicit further survey input. The survey was offered in English and Spanish, and from October 2017 through April 2018 over 2,800 completed responses were received.
The draft system plan identifies four (4) primary goals to guide the parks system over the next ten years: 1.) San Antonio has a RESPONSIVE park system; 2.) The Park System is RESTORATIVE to the community's h...
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