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# BREC sets the ground rules
- URL: https://www.redeyebr.com/brec-sets-the-ground-rules/
- Published: 2026-06-11T00:49:52.000Z
- Updated: 2026-06-11T13:52:24.000Z
- Description: Thursday's City-Brooks community meeting is structured feedback—not a public debate.
- Author: JR Ball
- Tags: News, City Park

BREC and design firm Sasaki will host a [community meeting](https://www.brec.org/lakesvision?ref=redeyebr.com) Thursday evening, from 5:30–7 p.m., at the McKinley Alumni Center on the City-Brooks Community Park + Lakes Vision Plan. One thing not on the agenda: a public airing of grievances or demands.

**Why it matters:** Reimagining City-Brooks Park—especially the fate of the golf course, a tie-in with the University Lakes project and a recommendation to use a conservancy to manage it all—has prompted strong community reaction. BREC officials are making it clear: Thursday's meeting is about updating the public and gathering feedback, not amplifying the debate.

**What to expect:** Robyn Lott, BREC's vice president of marketing and communications, confirms the format will be tightly structured.

- A 20–30 minute Sasaki presentation kicks things off, covering the planning history, current recommendations and key choices.
- For the remaining hour, roughly 30 large boards on easels will be arranged around the room, each focused on specific aspects of the potential master plan—zoomed-in details of areas that have only been shown in broad terms in earlier presentations.
- Sasaki and BREC representatives will circulate for one-on-one conversations at the boards.
- Feedback is collected via stickers—not open-mic comments.

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****City-Brooks Park + Lakes community meeting**  
📆: June 11  
⏰: 5:30-7 p.m.  
📍: McKinley Alumni Center, 1520 Thomas H. Delpit Drive

**No new options, no votes:** This is not the meeting to lobby for a golf course-free park or an unchanged one. Both draft plans retain the golf course in a modified format. Thursday goes deeper into the details of those existing drafts—it doesn't introduce alternatives.

**Details matter:** Get caught up on what's happened.

- *RedEye* looks at the [two drafts](https://www.redeyebr.com/two-visions-for-a-park/) offered by Sasaki.
- A larger think piece on City-Brooks Park and the [prospect of a grander vision](https://www.redeyebr.com/what-would-olmsted-do/).
- An overview of [public survey comments](https://www.redeyebr.com/city-park-survey/) on the master plan.

**The Bottom Line:** Feedback collected Thursday, combined with committee and commission input, will guide BREC's final decisions on the future of one of Baton Rouge's most contested green spaces.