{"id":360841,"date":"2026-07-04T09:20:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T09:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/360841\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T09:20:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T09:20:20","slug":"heres-where-to-share-what-you-think-about-austins-parks-plans-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/360841\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s where to share what you think about Austin&#8217;s parks plans | Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_173571\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-173571\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/MaryMooreSearightPark_201508_8849.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-173571 size-Vertical-Thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/MaryMooreSearightPark_201508_8849-220x331.jpg\" alt=\"Mary Moore Searight Park\" width=\"220\" height=\"331\"\/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-173571\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mary Moore Searight Metropolitan Park is located in Southwest Austin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nThe city of Austin is working to complete its updated Parks and Recreation Department Strategic Plan for 2017-21.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nResidents can comment on the plan online by Sept. 16. They can view the draft document and <a href=\"http:\/\/austintexas.us5.list-manage2.com\/track\/click?u=1861810ce1dca1a4c1673747c&amp;id=3e315ebe1f&amp;e=de3f80ba0f\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SpeakUp Austin discussion<\/a>\u00a0and provide their comments about the proposed mission and goals.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nThe Austin Parks and Recreation Department has been working for the past year on a strategic planning process to establish its vision, mission, values and goals for city parks, PARD spokesperson Shelley Parks said. She explained this is different from the city&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austintexas.gov\/page\/parks-recreation-long-range-plan-land-facilities-and-programs-lrp-adopted-november-2010\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">parks long-range plan<\/a>.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cThe strategic plan is an internal process\u2014this is where we need to be in 5 years and this is how we say we need to get there,\u201d she said, adding PARD aims to get feedback to help shape tasks and strategies going forward. &#8220;We would like to know if someone has an idea.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; The city of Austin is working to complete its updated Parks and Recreation Department Strategic Plan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,128136],"class_list":["post-360841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-heres-where-to-share-what-you-think-about-austins-parks-plans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}