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Vision for Parks and Green Spaces
In 2025, Greenville County is a place where parks, greenways, green spaces and environmentally significant lands and resources are in abundance, are protected, provide a wide variety of recreational opportunities, receive adequate financial support, and enhance the quality of life for all residents of the county.
Vision Goals
By 2015, the standard set forth in the Greenville County Parks and Recreation Master Plan and in the master plans for the municipalities in the county will be achieved.
Provide sufficient funding for the maintenance, improvement and redevelopment of existing parks and open spaces and for the acquisition and development of lands for such uses in the future.
Both incentives and regulations are used to create parks and open spaces in Greenville County.
One agency will have overall responsibility for parks and open spaces throughout Greenville County.
There is strong public support for parks and open spaces in Greenville County where all recognize the positive impact these places have on overall quality of life.
Benchmarks
15% of land acres in the county is in parks and open spaces.
10% of land in the county is in conservation easements.
Reedy River Greenway includes world class gardens, sculpture, bike paths and linkages to adjacent villages.
All parking lots are lined with trees.
One agency is responsible for parks.
The 300,000 acre Mountain Bridge becomes a World Heritage Site.
 
Download the complete Parks and Green Spaces Vision and Meeting Notes
 

In December 2006, the Greenville County Council voted 10 to 2 on a county-wide accommodations tax to help encourage and increase tourism in Greenville County, while at the same time providing facilities and activities that will enhance the quality of life for our citizens.

Download the TRAC Plan.

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In 2001, Greenville County sponsored a study of the needs for Parks and recreation areas called the "Woolpert Study." The Woolpert study is the benchmark for what we would like our parks to look like in the coming years. (Click picture to download.)
 
The Special Places Inventory is a listing of Greenville's treasures. (Click picture to download.)

Other Items

  • Bike Map. A map of bike trails throughout the county. Get out your bike this weekend and take a ride.