City of Lewisville
Comprehensive Athletic Field Study
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| Lewisville, Texas | 2024 | System-wide Athletic Field Study | N/A |
Lewisville is a growing and dynamic North Texas community with an approximate estimated service area population of 133,000 as of 2024. The community is proud of its parks and recreation system that matches Lewisville’s reputation for being a community in which to live, work, play and visit.
Currently, the City of Lewisville operates athletic fields and complexes for a variety of sports throughout the City. A significant aspect of the Parks and Recreation Department’s offerings is providing athletic fields for youth and adult sports programs. With a growing population and increased participation in athletic field sports programs, the City of Lewisville desired a Comprehensive Athletic Field Study to assess the current and future athletic field needs of the community to guide future athletic field development and improvements.
Aside from physical field improvement, reconfiguration, or new field development, there were operational practices that could be enhanced or developed to assist with overall utilization of both formal fields and informal practice areas. These included, but were not limited to the following:
- Better enforce organized club/organizational users of fields to submit field usage requests a minimum of 30 days in advance of their desired use period(s). This will better enable the Department to feature field availability to other users within the community.
- Consider developing a policy of collecting an advance deposit on athletic field rentals that can be held in whole or partially in the case of damage, or in the case of fields being reserved but then unused.
- Improve overall advertising of field availability to the public in the Amilia program/facility reservation system. This could improve the booking strategy for athletic fields more generally and not just for organizational users.
- Implement utilization and maintenance standards for athletic field facilities. This can be better institutionalized with the development of a new maintenance management plan.
- Continue the intentional engagement with local hospitality industry and municipal economic development to explore expansion potential for greater sports tourism to Lewisville through athletic sports complexes.