BATON ROUGE -- For months, City-Brooks Park and plans discussing changes has been a hot topic of discussion for the Baton Rouge area. Thursday evening, Sasaski Associates, a design firm, presented its City-Brooks Park Master Plan to the BREC Commission.

However, no decision has been made on whether to implement, accept, or deny the plan, as the meeting was just to accept that the plan was finished.

"The vote tonight is basically to accept that the master plan's been done. It's not to implement the plan; it's not to do anything, except to say, hey, it's finished, we're moving forward," BREC Vice Commission Chair Wade Evans said.

Sasaki says it has been hard at work over the past 12 months working on the City-Brooks Park Master Plan.

It's gone through multiple rounds of public input, thousands of surveys, and more. Tonight they submitted their vision for the park, which, if it ever is implemented, would see construction split into six phases.

"It sums up to approximately, about $100 million that is presented over the course of a 15-20 year build-out," Joshua Brooks with Sasaki Associates said.

These phases include additions to Brooks Park, like a running track and sports field, upgrades to the Brooks Pool and Rec Center, an active waterfront with kayaking opportunities, and preserving the golf course.

"What we have focused on from a phasing perspective is really the Brooks side of the park first, which has seen very little investment over the past couple of decades," Brooks said.

However, the price of construction is raising concerns amongst residents and even some of the commissioners.

"I don't see a way to pay $100 million to do this over the next 20 years, quite frankly," Evans said.

An issue that residents have with the plan is proposed changes to the golf course.

"Altering the historic city park golf course and its footprint. Sasaki's concepts do not keep the course intact," Baton Rouge resident Lynn Simon said.

Some residents say the people of Baton Rouge should have the decision over the design of the park.

"Let's use the people. We paid $640k to get input from 3,000 people. We have half a million people who live here in East Baton Rouge. Let's ask the people what they want. Let's stop all this going out of state," Baton Rouge resident Pennie May Landry said.

However, there is support for certain aspects of the plan amongst residents.

"I support the dog park. I do have a grandson. I very much approve the knock-knock museum, so I want those things to continue," Baton Rouge resident Patrick O'Quinn said.

Another popular proposal was upgrades to the pool.

"The pool being one, I don't think we've been in a meeting where the pool has not been something that's been met with universal acceptance and desire to move forward," BREC Commission member Lon Vicknair said.

Vicknair also said that this plan is not an all-or-nothing plan. 

"I think we can all agree we saw some things in this presentation that we like that we'd like to see be implemented and some things that we probably don't," Vicknair said. 

To see the full presentation by Sasaki and to learn more about the full City-Brooks Park & Lake Vision Plan, click here.