Our Parks, Our Future Story Map
The Austin Parks and Recreation Department's Long Range Plan is developed every 10 years and provides a blueprint to guide land acquisition, capital improvements and the development of programs and new amenities. City Council adopted an ordinance amending the Imagine Austin Comprehensive Plan by adopting the Parks and Recreation Long Range Plan for Land, Facilities and Programs on November 14, 2019. Our Parks, Our Future was funded in part through contributions from the Austin Parks Foundation.
You can review the final plan below:
- Final Long Range Plan (PDF, 28 MB)
- Appendix A: Park Planning Area Recommendations (PDF, 12 MB)
- Appendix B: Community Engagement Summary (PDF, 7 MB)
The Planning Team
- PARD Park Planning Division
- WRT
- PROS Consulting
- Studio Balcones
- Adisa Communications
- GO Collaborative
- ETC Institute
- The Trust for Public Land’s Center for City Park Excellence
Supplemental Info
Supplemental reports and information about related community engagement are outlined below.
- Background Reports
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- Boards and Commissions Comments
- Public Comments
- City Staff Comments
- Community Survey Report
- Statistically Valid Survey: Executive Summary and Full Survey Report
- Community Profile and Recreation Trend Report
- Benchmarking Report by Trust for Public Land
- Long Range Plan 2010 full document (43 MB)
- Our Parks, Our Future Community Meeting Series #1
- Surveys
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Community Survey - Open from November 28, 2018 to January 28, 2019. We received responses from 4,505 respondents. View the Survey Report here (PDF, 16 MB). Full data set can be viewed on the Open Data Portal here.
Statistically Valid Survey - Conducted by ETC from January 2019 to March 2019. We received responses from 925 respondents. View the Survey Report here (PDF).
- Our Parks, Our Future Community Meeting Series #2
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Series #2 Meeting Boards (PDF)
- Our Parks, Our Future Community Meeting Series #3 and Boards and Commissions