Asheville’s Comprehensive Parks and Recreation Plan
Planning is underway for Recreate Asheville: Shaping our City’s Parks! Use this website to stay updated on the latest, take the survey and learn about opportunities to engage throughout the planning process. Recreate Asheville will serve as a road map for the next 10-20 years to connect, fix, build, and preserve recreation programs and parkland throughout the City!
Get Involved
Public Engagement Events
The planning team will be sharing draft plan recommendations shaped by what we’ve learned through the community needs assessment phase which included a randomized statistically valid survey, an open online survey, in-person workshops and engagement events, focus group meetings, and stakeholder discussions. Feedback from this phase will be incorporated with feedback from the previous community needs assessment period to develop a strategic action plan. Community members will then have an additional period (tentatively scheduled from May 20-June 2) to review and comment on the draft plan.
March 2024 - April 2024
Wednesday, March 27 - April 15
Online survey available on the City of Asheville’s virtual engagement hub.
This survey has now closed.
Wednesday, March 27
6:00 pm
Join us for a virtual community meeting with a presentation followed by a town-hall style comment period. View meeting recording here.
Thursday, March 28
7:00 am - 11:00 am
Stephens-Lee Community Center
30 George Washington Carver Ave
Asheville, NC 28801
Join us for a drop-in open house community meeting with the opportunity to stay as little or as long as your schedule allows to weigh in on draft plan recommendations and speak directly with City of Asheville Staff.
Thursday, March 28
1:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Linwood Crump Shiloh Community Center
121 Shiloh Rd
Asheville, NC 28803
Join us for a drop-in open house community meeting with the opportunity to stay as little or as long as your schedule allows to weigh in on draft plan recommendations and speak directly with City of Asheville Staff.
Saturday, April 6
10:00 am - 2 pm
Carrier Park (along French Broad River Greenway in front of the restroom building)
220 Amboy Rd
Asheville, NC 28806
Join us for a drop-in open house community meeting with the opportunity to stay as little or as long as your schedule allows to weigh in on draft plan recommendations and speak directly with City of Asheville Staff.
Saturday, April 13
1:00 pm - 4 pm
Tanger Outlets (near the food court entrance as part of Truck City AVL)
800 Brevard Road
Asheville, NC 28806
Join us for a drop-in open house community meeting with the opportunity to stay as little or as long as your schedule allows to weigh in on draft plan recommendations and speak directly with City of Asheville Staff.
APR team members are also happy to attend virtual or in-person meetings of Asheville’s neighborhood organizations to discuss the plan in greater detail.
OCTOBER 2023
Thursday, October 5
5:00 - 7:00 pm
Nature Center
75 Gashes Creek Rd
Asheville, NC 28805
Friday, October 6
8:00 am - 12:00 pm
Dr. Wesley Grant Sr. Southside Community Center
285 Livingston St
Asheville, NC 28801
Monday, October 9
2:00 - 6:00 pm
Linwood Crump Shiloh Community Center
121 Shiloh Rd
Asheville, NC 28803
Thursday, October 12
5:00 - 7:00 pm
Carrier Park
220 Amboy Rd
Asheville, NC 28806
NOVEMBER 2023
Monday, November 6
3:00-5:00 pm
Community Engagement Market
Deaverview Apartments
275 Deaverview Road
Asheville, NC 28806
Wednesday, November 8
3:00-4:00 pm
Community Engagement Market
Pisgah View Apartments
1 Granada Street
Asheville, NC 28806
Thursday, November 9
12:00-2:00 pm
Community Engagement Market
Grove Street Center
36 Grove Street
Asheville, NC 28801
Thursday, November 9
6:00-7:30 pm
East End/ Valley St Neighborhood Association
St. James AME Church
44 Hildebrand Street
Asheville, NC 28801
Monday, November 13
3:00-4:00 pm
Community Engagement Market
Maple Crest Apartments at Lee Walker
20 Lee Garden Lane
Asheville, NC 28801
(in Building 10 which is clearly labeled and accessed off of Lee Garden Lane)
Tuesday, November 14
3:00-4:00 pm
Community Engagement Market
Bartlett Arms Apartments
121 Bartlett Street
Asheville, NC 28801
Wednesday, November 15
3:00-5:00 pm
Community Engagement Market
Shiloh Community Market
486 Caribou Road
Asheville, NC 28803
Friday, November 17
3:00-4:00 pm
Community Engagement Market
Klondyke Homes
500 Montford Avenue
Asheville, NC 28801
Tuesday, November 21
6:00-7:30 pm
Burton Street Neighborhood Association
Burton Street Community Center
134 Burton Street
Asheville, NC 28806
Get in Touch
Contact Asheville Parks and Recreation at 828-259-5800 or let us know your comments and questions in the box below. If you would like a response, please provide your name and a phone number or e-mail address.
FAQ
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In March of 2023, Asheville City Council approved $238,000 to develop a comprehensive plan to guide Asheville Parks & Recreation (APR)’s planning and decision-making over the next decade to meet the needs of residents, outlining steps to close the gap between current capabilities and the community’s vision.
Design Workshop, the firm hired to oversee creation of the plan, was selected among firms that responded to the City’s request for proposals.
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The plan will go through a rigorous inventory, analysis and engagement process to develop plan recommendations. Before finalizing there will be many opportunities for the public to weigh in on the draft plan recommendations:
Workshops
To obtain public review and feedback regarding the draft plan
Winter - Spring 2024
Boards, Commissions and Committee Presentations
To share draft plan with various City advisory groups
Winter – Spring 2024
City Council
To share draft plan during public meeting for adoption
Summer 2024
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Work on the plan began in the summer of 2023 and is anticipated to be completed by the summer of 2024.