{"id":279428,"date":"2026-09-05T03:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T03:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/279428\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T03:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T03:10:14","slug":"erie-city-council-unanimously-approves-erie-outside-plan-for-parks-open-spaces-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/279428\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie City Council unanimously approves ‘Erie Outside’ plan for parks, open spaces"},"content":{"rendered":"

Erie City Council is now putting a 20-year plan for the city\u2019s parks into action, unanimously voting to approve the resolution.<\/p>\n

The \u201cErie Outside: The City of Erie\u2019s Comprehensive Recreation, Parks, and Open Space Plan\u201d lays out goals for maintaining, improving and investing in the city\u2019s 52 parks and open spaces.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow that we have the full adoption of the plan, we\u2019re gonna be full steam ahead with working internally, working on recommendations that have come out of the plan,\u201d said Jackie Spry, the bureau chief of planning and zoning for the City of Erie.<\/p>\n

The plan focuses on park maintenance, accessibility, amenities and creating more vibrant places for people to gather. <\/p>\n

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City leaders said each part of the plan was shaped by input from over a thousand community members through surveys, workshops and other outreach.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe did so much public involvement in every single step, and it really shows because the product that we now have, the plan, has so much community input. It really lets our neighbors tell us what they want to see, what they don\u2019t like, what they wish they had, and that\u2019s really so important,\u201d said Daria Devlin, mayor of the City of Erie.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThose are the things that we\u2019re going to be taking into account, making sure that what we\u2019ve heard throughout this engagement process through the community input that we\u2019ve received, which is a pretty robust engagement process, is that we will be focusing on those things first,\u201d said Spry.<\/p>\n

Now that the plan has been approved, city leaders are working towards finding additional funding for the projects and improvements it recommends.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe really want to get to work, we have some parks money that has been put aside, this was ARP money that was dedicated years ago, and so now we want to move to implementation,\u201d said Mayor Devlin. <\/p>\n

Project leaders said the goal is to make sure Erie\u2019s parks continue serving residents while preparing them for future needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Erie City Council is now putting a 20-year plan for the city\u2019s parks into action, unanimously voting to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-279428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}