Park Visioning

Design consultations are available to all registered Friends of Park groups in the City of Atlanta, unincorporated DeKalb County, and the City of Brookhaven.

Design consultations are one-on-one meetings with our park visioning staff that happen on-site at your park. Meetings typically last one hour. Consultations may result in a written summary of the conversation and/or rough sketches or simple maps intended to help identify the next steps for a park project.

Friends of Park groups interested in receiving a design consultation can fill out the form below. Park Pride will review your application within a week of submission. Applications are open for the City of Atlanta until November 3 and will open for DeKalb County in Winter 2025.

Park vision plans are available to registered Friends of Park groups in the City of Atlanta or unincorporated DeKalb County, and Friends groups must:

• commit to six to eight months of public planning work,
• support an open and inclusive visioning process that intentionally represents differing opinions and diverse viewpoints,
• and be open to considering all ideas regardless of popularity, site control or budget.

Our park visioning process hinges on a robust, inclusive public engagement strategy, which is tailored to each community and is most successful when participants are open to various outcomes.

While every park visioning is unique, each community undergoing park visioning can expect:

• Monthly meetings – The scheduling of monthly meetings of a community steering committee with Park Pride’s visioning team over the 6-8 month process to inform the understanding of the community’s needs. The steering committee will help to develop and implement the public engagement strategy as well as participate in design discussions and decisions at monthly meetings. Committee members should represent a broad and diverse spectrum of community interests.
• Public input meetings – A series of public input meetings during which people are encouraged to dream big and think outside the box for what might be possible in their neighborhood park and form consensus around the priority projects they have for the design (or re-design) of their park.
• A final, conceptual park plan – The central deliverable of the Park Visioning Program is the creation of a conceptual park master plan that includes:
  • an investigation of the history and neighborhood context around the park,
  • a catalog of existing conditions in the park,
  • a summary of the process including public engagement strategies,
  • documentation of how decisions were made,
  • a visual representation of the conceptual park plan,
  • a prioritized project list, as well as the graphics and site plans necessary to help the community bring their dream park to reality,
  • an itemized opinion of probable costs.

Communities interested in receiving park visioning services must apply, and the application pool is highly competitive.

Click your jurisdiction below to begin the Park Visioning application process:

City of Atlanta

Unincorporated DeKalb County