• Comprehensively connect greenways across the County, especially to downtown; develop new greenways and sidewalks (Consider Powerline Right-of-Ways for greenways); consider Rails to trails projects
• Develop trail systems within parks for walking and exercise
• Develop more mountain bike trails and dirt bike facilities
• Consider lighting greenways
• Provide more bathrooms and drinking fountains
• Provide more splash pads and indoor pools
• Build more lighted athletic fields; consider soccer and baseball complexes throughout the county
• Create an indoor sports complex
• Create a Multi-use Sports Park
• Consider giant parks and recreation centers (2-4 scattered throughout the County) with activities for all age
• Open gyms for all ages
• Update playgrounds – consider lighting; update passive parks (more green spaces)
• Create more Recreation Centers with tennis courts, aerobics, fitness centers, and loops with trail connections
• Provide more meeting spaces
• Acquire more land and key locations for open space and recreation; increase acreage of the park system
• Create open space parks with more natural areas
• Preservation of forests, river bluffs, creeks, and springs, include unpaved trails along ridges; plant and maintain native species; ecosystem restoration
• Practice stream and creek restorations
• Recycle centers and containers within parks, more trash cans in busy areas
• More ADA accessibility within parks and activities geared towards the disabled, more parks with accessible equipment for children; recommend that all facilities should be ADA accessible
• Increase senior citizens activities within parks
• Develop the skate park and include other locations
• Create more T-ball fields
• Increase security in parks (Crime Prevention through Environmental Design), including KPD presence in parks
• Provide on-line data base for access to information; promote the parks
• Create “Friends of the Park” groups; develop partnerships to increase funding opportunities and community involvement
• Consider partnerships for purchasing fields
• Have developers set aside lands for park space
• Create consistent directional signage to parks
• Increase funding for the maintenance of Parks, have better maintenance of existing facilities
• Put as much money in parks as industrial areas
• More focus on alternate types of transportation
• Create more dog parks and continue to provide dog pick up bags
• Combine city and county parks and recreation departments
• Provide interpretive information at parks
• Develop alliance with UT Agriculture and others
• Create touchable water warnings for public knowledge of water conditions

Specific Area Recommendations:

• Community Center for the Norwood Neighborhood
• Fix Linden Park
• Recommend adding 8-10 fields for soccer in the Karns/Farragut areas
• Provide more parking at Schumpert Park
• Create an observation tower at Ft. Dickerson with a winding trail to waterfront
• Community blue way and park facility at Mine Rd./Mascot Bridge/Eastbridge community.
• Development of House Mountain as a recreational center
• Preservation of Holston River Access
• Upgrade East Knox Park