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Parks and Recreation Board urges fuller parks chapter, calls for more funding and consolidated department oversight
Summary
The Parks and Recreation Board presented preliminary, non‑binding feedback on Envision Evanston, urging corrected park maps, more robust operational funding and consolidation of parks functions into a single department.
Eli Shevick, chair of the Evanston Parks and Recreation Board, told the Land Use Commission that the board had examined the Envision Evanston draft but had not yet voted on a formal recommendation and asked for changes and clarification in the parks and open‑space chapter.
Shevick said the board found parks missing from the zoning map when the initial draft released, and staff assured the board that parks would not be removed. The board’s comments submitted to the commission are compiled from meeting minutes and a shared Google document; "our board has not voted on anything. This is just a culmination of our meeting minutes and a Google document that we've been sharing to edit on our portion,"…
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