Kenmore Sound

Community · Nov 20, 2025

Parks survey results were scheduled to feed Kenmore's parks plan review on Nov. 20

Kenmore's Nov. 20, 2025 Planning Commission agenda listed the Parks and Recreation community survey results as part of the city's Draft PROS Plan review, ahead of a planned recommendation to the City Council in January 1.

What the records say

The agenda for the Kenmore Planning Commission's Nov. 20, 2025 special meeting included an item titled 'Parks and Rec Community Survey Results November 2025' under the 'PROS Plan review' agenda item 1. A Nov. 10 staff memo said staff and the city's consultant would review the Draft Parks, Recreation, and Open Space (PROS) Plan in its entirety at that meeting, including the latest survey results, with the objective of receiving Commission feedback, making revisions, and reviewing the plan one additional time before making a recommendation to the City Council in January 1. The PROS Plan is the city's planning document for parks, trails, and recreation; the draft plan states its proposals represent opinions developed from public participation events and that public input is used to refine final project, plan, and financing components 1.

  • The Nov. 20, 2025 Planning Commission agenda listed 'Parks and Rec Community Survey Results November 2025' under the PROS Plan review item.
  • A Nov. 10, 2025 staff memo said the Nov. 20 special meeting would review the Draft PROS Plan including the latest survey results, gather Commission feedback, and make revisions before one more review prior to a January recommendation to the City Council.
  • The draft PROS Plan states its proposals represent opinions developed from public participation events, with public input used to refine final project, plan, and financing components.

Why it matters

The PROS Plan guides how Kenmore prioritizes and funds parks, trails, and recreation programs, and the plan document says public input — including resident surveys — is used to refine its final project, plan, and financing components. Residents' survey answers were therefore part of the record shaping which park improvements the city pursues, and the plan update is tied to the city's eligibility for state and federal park and trail grants 1.

What changed / what's next

  • The Nov. 20, 2025 agenda added the November 2025 community survey results to the city's ongoing Draft PROS Plan review, ahead of a planned January recommendation to the City Council 1.
  • The supplied records are pre-meeting only and do not establish what the Commission did with the survey results on Nov. 20, what the survey findings showed in the presented materials, or whether the January Council recommendation occurred as planned 1.
  • The available records do not establish the meeting's outcome.