Following strong pushback from elected officials and residents, a park committee decided to delay voting to advance a proposal to sell multiple BREC parks in north Baton Rouge.
More than two hours into BREC’s Planning and Park Resources Advisory Committee meeting this week, committee member Christopher Toombs introduced the deferral motion. It applied to five of the eight parks that would be sold, if the proposal moved forward and passed in a 7-2 vote, with Tim Gaines and Kimberly Powers voting against it.
The committee voted to recommend three parks — Alexander Street Park, Belfair Park and Blueberry Street Park — be declared obsolete and sold. Those plans now go to the BREC Commission, which is set to introduce an ordinance on the matter at its meeting next Thursday…