Parks & Rec plan for the Future!
Exciting news! Over the next 9 months, the Lynchburg Parks and Recreation Department wants to hear from YOU! Our award-winning Parks & Rec is committed to collaborate with the Lynchburg community and design Lynchburg’s parks, trail and facilities for the future. Previous plans have been essential in creating the extensive options we have to enjoy parks, trails and facilities - even the Riverside Park Master Plan developed in the 1930’s is still being implemented today. Our recreational needs have changed over the years, and it’s time for a new MASTER PLAN to guide our next steps.
The Lynchburg Parks & Rec Needs Assessment and Comprehensive Park Master Plan process kicked off March 1, 2021. After a competitive process, a team of City Directors vetted and chose an experienced design company called Lose Design out of Nashville Tennessee that has served over 1000 communities since 1982 and has created over 100 Comprehensive Park and Recreation Master Plans. We are delighted to have their expertise guide our own Hill City!
Community engagement is key to developing a great parks and trail master plan. THIS MEANS YOU! The plan for community engagement involves interviews with individual City leaders and staff , focus groups, stakeholder meetings, Pop-Ups, park and trail tours, public meetings and on-line engagements and survey questionnaires.
Hollins Mill Park
Please come share your ideas for Lynchburg at one of the 4 initial Pop-Ups:
March 18th
8:00-11:45am at the Lynchburg Community Market.
2:00-4:45pm at the Awareness Garden and Blackwater Creek Trail Mile Marker 2.0 (by the emergency phone).
6-8pm at the Ed Page and Linkhorne Trestle intersection.
We hope to hear all your great ideas at these Pop-Ups! Suggestions we collect will greatly assist our consultants in developing a survey questionnaires that will be available by mail and online.
Watch your mailboxes for a survey questionnaire! This random survey will help guide our community, so please complete it by the deadline. The random survey carries more weight in generalizing survey results to the community as a whole. Also, a Social Pinpoint website will be established to host all components of this project including another survey questionnaire, and will connect to the Parks & Rec department website for easy access.
On March 30th, the first public meeting will be held (virtually due to COVID restrictions). Stay tuned for the on-line link.
The new Lynchburg parks master plan will determine how Lynchburg parks and trails are built out for generations to come. We need your help to create a parks and trail master plan with the same great vision of our park-planning predecessors so future Lynchburg generations will be able to enjoy new parks, trails and facilities into the next century.
We love our Parks & Rec Dept!