{"id":15321,"date":"2012-10-31T10:28:21","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T14:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raleighpublicrecord.org\/?p=15321"},"modified":"2012-11-05T09:33:50","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T14:33:50","slug":"a-new-plan-in-the-works-for-city-parks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/news\/2012\/10\/31\/a-new-plan-in-the-works-for-city-parks\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Plan in the Works for City Parks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Raleigh\u2019s Parks and Recreation Department is in the beginning stages of what they\u2019re calling a new system plan to set a 20-year roadmap to revamp and update city parks.<\/p>\n

During the two-year process, city staff will prioritize specific areas of the park system. Parks and Rec staff identified unpaved nature trails, picnic areas, bicycle lanes, and small neighborhood parks as high priorities. Other facilities, such as soccer fields and basketball courts, are categorized as low priority.<\/p>\n

In an Oct. 11 meeting, Lora Greco, Raleigh\u2019s city parks planner, presented the plan to the Raleigh Transit Authority. Her presentation emphasized the project\u2019s commitment to community outreach.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the things we\u2019re working on is to develop participation,\u201d Greco said. \u201cThe ultimate goal is to be transparent. We can do this with community workshops, surveys, an interactive website and other methods.\u201d<\/p>\n

Project team members hope the website yourparksyourfuture.com<\/a> will serve as a bridge between them and the community.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis website will focus on public engagement and creating community conversations around what citizens want, priorities and overall, where Parks and Recreation should go over the next 20 years,\u201d Bentley said.<\/p>\n

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Stephen Bentley, the Capital Improvement Program Manager, said there are several reasons the city staff decided to revamp the parks plan now.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe City of Raleigh\u2019s population and other demographics have overall dynamically grown and changed significantly over the last decade,\u201d he said. \u201cOverall a city should update its Parks and Recreation System Plan every five to 10 years, and given the growth and changes in Raleigh, the Council supported this update.\u201d<\/p>\n

The planning project is divided into five phases. The first phase of the project, which analyzes the current park and greenway system, will come to a close at the end of this year.<\/p>\n

Phase two, which focuses on assessing the community\u2019s needs, began this month and ends in February 2013. The third and fourth phases center on the application of the proposed ideas, and will end on August 2013.<\/p>\n

Greco said she hopes to present the final plan to City Council in January 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new 20-year plan for Raleigh parks and greenways is getting underway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24059,"featured_media":15324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[1057,402],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15321"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24059"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}