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Asset Inventory • Community centers, as a rule, benefit
from their strong durable exterior and
The consultant team worked over a 4-month interior materials but suffer from leaking
period to personally visit, inventory, and assess roofs and need to find ways to bring more
all 221 parks, greenways and athletic complexes, users into their doors.
as well as 21 indoor facilities owned by the • Buildings that have an active usership
department. Additionally, we conducted a review thrive while those that lie in vacancy
of existing partnerships with outside agencies decline.
and the landscape of alternative providers in the • Partnerships are strong in youth sports in
KC metro region. Those findings include: the far north and far south, but less so in
the center.
• Parks, greenways, and athletic complexes • The alternative providers of recreation
achieved an average composite score of and open space that pose the greatest
65.2 out of 100. competition to the Department are
• Parks scored lowest in the criterion of adjacent cities.
Usability.
• On a City Council District Basis, District
#2 scored the lowest at a 61.2 and District
#6 scored the highest at a 71.1. This
master plan references the current (post-
August 2023) council district boundaries.
• The 21 indoor facilities that the team
visited achieved an average composite
score of 68.7 out of 100.

65.2
65.2 park composite score

out of 100

68.7 facility composite
68.7

score out of 100

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