The next step, the commission says, is to designate an organization to guide the recommendations into reality. “This is a foundation for the future, but there is a great deal of work to do going forward, and we realize that this is but a step in a long process,” Mr. McClure said.

Many in the region have praised the Ferguson Commission’s efforts, but some have raised questions about whether its findings — however meaningful — might wind up gathering dust. No doubt, many of the commission’s recommendations would require significant action from the State Legislature, locally elected councils and boards, and others.

“What this group has done over the last year has just put into written form what so many people have already voiced for years about change that needs to happen in the St. Louis region, but identifying a problem and fixing it are different,” Antonio French, a St. Louis alderman who has been active in protests, said on Sunday.

Maria Chappelle-Nadal, a Democratic state senator, said she feared that the commission’s findings would be announced with great fanfare, “but then we’re just going to hear crickets, crickets, crickets.”

She added: “The practicality of getting any of this done is close to null.”

Ms. Chappelle-Nadal and others have criticized the Republican-controlled Legislature for not doing more over the past year to address concerns that emerged in the months after Michael Brown was killed by Darren Wilson, then a Ferguson police officer, in August 2014. Bills to require body cameras on police officers and change the state’s rules for using lethal force were among those that failed to gain traction.

State lawmakers did pass legislation limiting how much revenue municipalities can keep from traffic fines. And some on the commission point to other signs of change already afoot: St. Louis last month passed an increase in the minimum wage, and Governor Nixon, a Democrat, last month called for improved training for law enforcement officers in his state, including more education on “fair and impartial policing.”