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Imagine Roseville 2025:
<br /> A Springboard for the Future of Our Parks and Recreation System
<br /> During 2006, Roseville embarked on an ambitious program of engaging citizens to define the future of their community.
<br /> By the end of the year, and through dozens of meetings and workshops, a vision was framed to address the foundations
<br /> of a great community. While many of the goals relate directly to our parks and recreation system, one in particular stands
<br /> out.
<br /> Roseville has world-renowned parks, open space, and multi-generational recreation programs and facilities. This goal is
<br /> supported by two strategies which are reflected in the work of the master plan:
<br /> • Expand and maintain year-round, creative programs and facilities for all ages, abilities, and interests
<br /> • Provide high quality and well-maintained facilities, parks, and trails
<br /> A Vision for Roseville's
<br /> Parks and Recreation System
<br /> Playing and Learning Life Skills. We envision parks as places for play,
<br /> embracing both age and culture, where games happen for the sake . .f
<br /> of amusement, where we learn through play to act and interact, and
<br /> where we compete as our proficiencies grow. *. +, -,,
<br /> Active Living All the Time. We envision activities where we gain skills "
<br /> that bring life-long physical and mental health and create a state of -.,,
<br /> well-being from activity and interaction. ,
<br /> Citizen Engagement. We envision parks and facilities as places for
<br /> programs that engage our citizens, young and old, with activities and
<br /> adventures that they might not otherwise engage in, with services alb
<br /> directed to community needs, with programs that connect people of
<br /> similar interests while yielding a greater sense of community, and with Context and Challenges
<br /> events that celebrate traditions and create new customs.
<br /> While Roseville's parks and recreation system
<br /> Environmental Stewardship. We envision our parks as an opportunity is clearly a great system, there are challenges.
<br /> to care for our wild places and creatures, where we have been Many parts of the system are aging, obsolete,
<br /> entrusted to manage a resource so future generations benefit from or have simply reached the end of their
<br /> the spirit of nature, and where nature is extended to the experience of useful life. Others fail to highlight the kind of
<br /> every park visitor. community Roseville truly is.
<br /> High Quality and Maintenance. We envision administering our parks The community is changing. Today, Roseville
<br /> to ensure continuity and quality of service, where we maintain well is nearly fully developed, with only about
<br /> what we have created, and where we plan carefully new additions so two percent of the land in the community
<br /> that they, too, become integral, well-cared for parts of our parks and being undeveloped. Our demographics are
<br /> recreation system. changing, with trends suggesting greater
<br /> cultural diversity, an increase in the age of the
<br /> Community Connections. We envision parks, and the connections population, and a higher number of one and
<br /> between them, as a way of binding us to our neighborhoods and to two person households. Demographics suggest
<br /> our community, where we connect to nature and to each other—both a trend toward younger families, as they fill
<br /> being essential elements of our place, where we celebrate our common homes once occupied by seniors.
<br /> cultures, where we form friendships, practice citizenship, and where we
<br /> choose to create commitments to our community. Finally, as sound as the first parks plan
<br /> was, there are parts of Roseville that are
<br /> Community Character and Identity. We envision our parks and underserved. In southwest Roseville, the
<br /> recreation system as a feature that we frame for ourselves, that we nearest parks are those in the neighboring
<br /> invite others who share our passion for parks and community to help communities of Falcon Heights and Lauderdale.
<br /> us create, that we mold as Roseville continues to change, and that In areas of the community with a worreday
<br /> we embrace as an essential part of our community's character and population, recreation opportunities are also
<br /> identity. lacking.
<br /> While we view our parks and recreation system
<br /> It's in this spirit that we find resonance with the ideas citizens have with pride, we also see its wear—sometimes
<br /> carried forward in Roseville. Through dialogue and the exchange of from age, and sometimes from intensive use.
<br /> ideas, an understanding of changing contexts and new challenges, we Today, more than 280,000 people are involved
<br /> have come to understand that our parks are, in fact, world-renowned. in more than 1,850 programs, services,
<br /> Because we have created the means to make and keep them our own, and events each year. We see this level of
<br /> we recognize the need to perpetuate their presence as a vital and participation growing, keeping citizens engaged,
<br /> essential part of our community. We know that as we secure a future building a greater sense of community, and
<br /> for parks for our individual reasons, we secure them for the more placing additional stress on our parks and
<br /> universal purposes of our common life as a community. recreation system.
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