At the direction of Council, in late 2019, the Planning Commission had been tasked with working on a conceptual plan identifying community needs and improvement for each park in the Borough to be use as a parks system plan. This park system plan is in intended to serve as a major tool to guide the future direction of current and prospective park considerations in the Borough. Although the plan itself is not completed the Borough Planning Commission believe it is important to forward the findings to Council to assist in budgetary planning for the future.
The Borough Planning Commission spent countless hours soliciting public input by blanketing the town with signage, flyers, and social media advertising resident input. In addition, the Planning Commission held five zoom workshops designated for each park or park type in 2020 and 2021. These workshops were well attended by Borough residents and valuable input was gathered from their comments. In addition, the Borough solicited input via message boards, handwritten letters, emails, every Planning Commission meeting, and conducted an additional survey in the fall of 2021. The Borough Planning Commission also analyzed and included input from previous surveys such as the “Friends of the Park and Borough Park Surveys from previous years. This is an executive summary of these findings with priority recommendations with estimated costs for these items for short- and long-term budgetary planning for the Borough Parks system.
Ambler-Parks-Summary-and-Recommendations-2022.09.02.pdf
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