The Ypsilanti Township Parks & Recreation Plan encompasses 29 recreational facilities across 900 acres of land that the Township manages, funds, and operates. The development of the plan took place over the 2023 calendar year, and the Ypsilanti Township Board of Trustees adopted the plan in early 2024, making the plan valid through the end of 2028. Ypsilanti Township revises its Parks and Recreation Plan every five years to conduct an updated assessment of its recreation inventory and to re prioritize recreation projects based on need and public input. The updated plan also allows the Township to be eligible for grant funding through the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.

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The community engagement strategy for the updated parks and recreation plan was multi-pronged and included an online survey; three stakeholder meetings with invited Township citizens, users of parks and programs, and past and present elected officials; and two community open houses. The online community parks and recreation survey was offered in English, Arabic, and Spanish, and it garnered 915 responses, indicating significantly significant survey results.

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Beckett & Raeder, Inc. conducted an inventory of each of the 29 recreation facilities, and the Plan includes a detailed analysis of each facility. Four of the larger facilities (Community Center Park, Ford Lake Park, Loon Feather Point Park, and North Bay Park) also include cell phone data to illustrate park usage patterns. Finally, the culmination of the Plan is the Implementation section, which includes an action plan that combines data and community preferences into an actionable to do list, organized by park type, for the next five years.