The recommendations from the commission are just that recommendations. It is now up to city council members to decide if they want to implement any. In 2017, a Brainerd Dispatch reporter shed some context on the issue, physically counting 259 on-street diagonal parking spaces in downtown Brainerd and another 30 in the public Laurel Street parking lot.
After a Crow Wing Energized presentation, members of the Brainerd Parks and Recreation Board discussed whether they would like to see all city parks tobacco free.