The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board (MPRB) completed a new comprehensive plan that will guide the organization’s policy and priorities through the year 2036. At its Oct. 20 meeting, MPRB Commissioners approved the plan, called “Parks for All.”
Parks for All is based on the shared values of communities the MPRB serves, organizations and agencies the MPRB works with, and MPRB Commissioners and staff. It was created, revised and finalized through three years of research and feedback.
Parks for All will provide guidance in developing policy, establishing or changing programs and services, setting the annual MPRB budget and creating park improvements over the next decade and a half.
Parks for All is a tool for communicating to MPRB staff, commissioners and the public about what the MPRB does and what it values. It builds on what works now while identifying gaps in programs, services and strategies that need to be filled.
Parks for All focuses on the whole park system, not specific recommendations for individual parks. It builds from the 2007 MRPB Comprehensive Plan other MPRB master plans, policies and activity plans, strategic directions and community input gathered during the last three years of engagement across the entire system, all of which incorporate more specific recommendations.
See the plan at miminneapolisparks.org/park_care__improvements/park_projects/current_projects/mprb-comprehensive-plan/.