Parks for All Virtual Summit recap and next steps

Posted on 27 July, 2020

Thank you to everyone who engaged in the Parks for All Virtual Park Summit this summer! Originally planned for one day, the Park Summit extended over three weeks with more than 200 people engaging virtually through Listening Sessions, Viewing Parties, video, Office Hours, Panel Discussions, a survey and a community comment board.

The Park Summit examined more than 500 policy ideas generated by 150 workgroup and committee members. The ideas were considered for their connections, gaps, differences, and significance. Notes and presentations from every event hosted during the summit are on the project website under the “Get Involved” tab at minneapolisparks.org/parksforall. They are also linked below, under the Park Summit Notes and Presentations header.

MPRB staff is currently working to create a draft Comprehensive Plan that will be shared with the public for feedback during a comment period this fall.

Pandemic and Racial Justice Impacts

During the Parks for All planning process, global impacts, including a pandemic and racial justice uprisings, changed the course of our work and how we see our future as a park and recreation system. Policy ideas have been impacted by this unique time in our history as our communities and work changed dramatically in response to COVID-19 and the death of George Floyd.

The recent weeks and months have also made it clear that there is great urgency for us to move forward in our work to untangle systemic racism, health disparities and violence from our government systems. We hold on to the realities of these past several months as we set the course of our policy direction for the next decade. The MPRB Comprehensive Plan has the responsibility to catalyze changes around historic and current inequities.

Park Summit Presentations

Park Summit Meeting Notes

Park Board Announcements

There are no announcements at this time. Please check back soon.