Steve Jones

The 2025 Master Plan for Belleville is a long-range policy document guiding development and decision-making over a 10- to 20-year period. It outlines community goals and objectives focused on promoting diverse housing options, supporting a thriving local economy, advancing sustainability and resilience, enhancing transportation and infrastructure, transforming the Sumpter Road Corridor, and fostering placemaking and community building. The plan provides strategies for future growth, investment, and decision-making to achieve a cohesive, vibrant, and inclusive community.

The City of Belleville's 2026-2030 Parks & Recreation Master Plan serves as a strategic guide for decision-making and securing funding to enhance and improve the city's park and recreation offerings. The plan updates the inventory of facilities, analyzes demographic characteristics, and establishes five key goals: enhancing park features and accessibility, addressing the recreational needs of all age groups, promoting nonmotorized transportation to facilities, ensuring the maintenance of existing parks, and improving the water quality of Belleville Lake.

The 2025 Master Plan for the City of Belleville serves as a long-range policy document guiding development and decision-making over a 10- to 20-year period. It outlines a unified vision for the community, focusing on six key goals: promoting diverse housing options, supporting a thriving local economy, advancing sustainability and resilience, enhancing transportation and infrastructure, transforming the Sumpter Road Corridor, and fostering placemaking and community building.

The 2026-2030 Parks & Recreation Master Plan for the City of Belleville serves as a guide for decision-making and securing grant funding to enhance and improve the city's parks and recreation offerings. The plan focuses on five key goals: expanding park features, addressing the recreational needs of all age groups, promoting nonmotorized transportation and connectivity to facilities, ensuring the maintenance of existing parks, and improving the water quality of Belleville Lake. It aims to provide a framework for public and private decision-making to achieve long-range recreational goals and objectives.

This Parks and Recreation Master Plan Refresh for the City of Belleville, Michigan, focuses on updating the city's community demographics using 2020 census data and reviewing the current parks and recreation inventory. The plan outlines a roadmap for maintenance, upgrades, and improvements to the city's park infrastructure. Key areas of focus include enhancing existing parks, addressing the needs of all age groups, and fostering partnerships with neighboring communities and organizations. Proposed projects include organizational opportunities with Van Buren Township, developing a greenways and non-motorized network, improving Horizon Park, and making general park improvements. Funding will be sought through various sources, including general funds, millage, user fees, bond programs, grants, donations, and potential regional partnerships.