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along the greenways, with a “County Loop” trail linking along the Ohio River Corridor, through
the Jefferson Memorial Forest, eastward to Floyds Fork, and then north again to the Ohio River.
Table A
EXISTING AND PROPOSED LOUISVILLE METRO PARKS AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT
PARK LAND AND RECREATION FACILITIES
1995 Total Proposed Additions
Proposed 2020 Total
2015 Total
Inventory
Inventory
Inventory
Local Parkland
5,082 acres 2,014 to 2,462 acres 7,096 to 7,544 acres
6,341
Regional Parkland 5,192 acres 5,210 to 6,368 acres 10,402 to 11,560 acres 6,825
Playgrounds
Basketball (Outdoor)
Tennis
Softball/Baseball
Volleyball
Soccer
Football
Swimming Pools
Community/ Recreation
Centers
Major Indoor Sports Complex
Multi-use fields (soccer,
football, field hockey, etc.) 111
102
210
92
24
44
10
15
18 22 to 36
28 to 45
10 to 18
18 to 30
0 to 24
18 to 28
0 to 4
2*
6 133 to 147
130 to 147
220 to 228
110 to 122
24 to 28
62 to 72
10 to 14
17
24 108
85
160
92
19
See multi-use fields
See multi-use fields
5
12
0 1 1 0
135
* One of the new swimming pools was to be incorporated into a recommended major indoor sports complex
Source (excluding 2015 data): Wallace Roberts & Todd
Source for 2015 data: Louisville Metro Parks and Recreation Department
The plan called for a parks and open space system that “helps to define future
community form by functioning as an environmental framework within which urban growth
occurs as discrete neighborhoods rather than undifferentiated suburban development.” This
open space structure was to be primarily built around Louisville’s creeks and other waterways,
thereby conserving key wildlife and biological resources which tend to concentrate along the
stream corridors.
1995 estimates of what it would cost to implement the Plan
The recommendations of the 1995 Plan were estimated to require between $93 million
and $144 million in capital expenditures, including $20 to $24 million for parkland acquisition,
$49 to $80 million for a variety of parkland improvements and the development of recreation
facilities, and $24 to $40 million for acquisition of and improvements to the greenway system.
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