Can East Baton Rouge’s park system overcome the problems it spent years creating?

August 28, 2026

DUELING VIEWS: From above, City-Brooks Community Park looks placid: a nearly century-old golf course winding through mature oaks beside the University Lakes. On the ground, its future has become one of Baton Rouge’s most contentious civic debates, as planners propose reshaping the course and expanding public amenities while also recommending a nonprofit conservancy to manage the park and lakes—leaving BREC, LSU and the city-parish as owners but potentially transforming how this prized public space is run. Photo by Don Kadair

On Aug. 3, Brooks Williams took the helm of the parks and recreation agency for East Baton Rouge Parish, commonly known as BREC, which has spent the last 18 months trying to prove it has moved past ch…

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