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Grand Prairie receives midpoint update on parks, recreation and open-space master plan
Summary
Consultants briefed the City Council on a midpoint update to Grand Prairie’s parks, recreation and open-space master plan, reporting 622 statistically valid survey responses, planned tree canopy and health studies, and a draft adoption timetable targeting early 2026.
Consultants and city staff on Tuesday gave Grand Prairie City Council a midpoint briefing on an 18-month update to the city’s parks, recreation and open-space master plan, outlining survey results, system assessments and next steps toward a draft plan scheduled for early 2026.
Kendall Howard, the project manager with Time and Associates, told the council the project began in January and that the team had completed a discovery phase that included stakeholder meetings, public workshops and a statistically valid mailed survey. "We exceeded that with 622 completed surveys," Howard said, adding the survey yields a margin of error of plus-or-minus 4 percent.
The update matters because the plan will guide future capital recommendations and investments across Grand Prairie’s park system; the council last updated its parks master plan in 2017. Howard said the final plan will…
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