Committee scraps contested population-language from draft Parks and Open Space Plan

Sep 14, 2026

Draft parks plan language citing a 2024 Wisconsin Department of Administration study was disputed by committee members; staff will remove the contested paragraph and await updated population projections before finalizing acreage objectives.

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Committee members spent an extended portion of the meeting reviewing chapters 3–4 of the draft Parks and Open Space Plan and flagged a paragraph that relied on a controversial 2024 Wisconsin Department of Administration (DOA) population forecast.

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