Citywide Parks Master Plan

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Citywide Parks Master Plan Update

In 2016, the City contracted with RHAA Landscape Architecture & Planning Inc. to complete a Citywide Park Master Plan. The development of the plan included assessments of the City’s park inventory, community engagement, cost analysis and priority setting. The plan is six years old, with the majority of the community engagement having taken place seven years ago. To keep up with the evolving park trends, demographic changes, and development in Newark, a plan update is needed. The City recently contracted with RHAA Landscape Architecture & Planning Inc. to develop the Plan update.

The community engagement phase ran from September 2023 through the February 2024. It included a pop-up event at Newark Days, two community meetings and an online survey. Now that the needs assessment and gap analysis is complete, RHAA will develop reccommendations. The draft plan is anticipated to presented to City Council in July 2024.

For more information and to be notified of updates contact roya.gonzalez@newark.org.

Citywide Parks Master Plan - June 2017 (PDF)

The City of Newark operates and maintains 131 acres of City parks and several recreational facilities. Of this total, 121 acres are owned by the City and 10 acres are leased from the Newark Unified School District. There are 13 parks in the City, including eight neighborhood parks, three Community parks, the Shirley Sisk Grove, MacGregor Play Fields. The City also owns and operates the Silliman Activity and Family Aquatic Center, the Clark W. Redeker Newark Senior Center, and the Newark Community Center (closed but available for rental). There are 3- and 5 -acre parks proposed in the Dumbarton Transit Oriented Development, a 3-acre joint use park planned in the Sanctuary Development (Area 3) and a 2-acre park envisioned in Sanctuary West (Area 4). There are also 80 acres of Area 4 designated for a golf course or other recreational use. In addition to City owned parks, there are privately owned mini parks in some neighborhoods.

General Plan Parks Recreation and Open Space Element (PDF) - Details of the City’s Parks
Newark's General Plan (PDF) - The complete General Plan

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