13 Parks and Recreation
Introduction
The parks and recreation element of the Comprehensive Development Plan (CDP) provides a framework for comprehensive parks and recreation planning and serves as a policy guide for implementation of such planning efforts. Much of the inventory and policies in this element come from the Atlanta Parks, Open Space, and Greenways Plan, which was adopted into the CDP in December 1993. Additional policies include those associated with the Georgia Greenspace Program.
The Atlanta Parks, Open Space and Greenways Plan is the result of three years of consensus building among the City, the Mayor's Green Ribbon Committee, the NPUs and various special interest groups. The plan offers a new way to accommodate the movement of Atlantans around their city. It achieves this by providing safe and accessible recreation opportunities for all citizens, protecting and enhancing natural, historic and cultural resources, bringing economic investment to neighborhoods and commercial areas and physically and socially unifying the City.