Fellow Winter Park Residents,
Please share with friends and neighbors.
Please contact the Mayor and Commissioners and tell them to stop!
Winter Park requires park and recreation land be at least ten acres per 1,000 population, or 300 acres of park based on a population of 30,000. We now have 471 acres of park land, or 157% of the requirement. Further, Winter Park is completely built out with no land available for residential development that would increase usage of our existing parks.
Now, the city commission is about to commit to purchase 1.88 acres at the corner of Denning Drive and Orange Avenue for over $6,000,000 and dedicate it as more park land. There is no use plan for this new "park" and no funding to buy it, improve it, or maintain it. This land is across the street from "Pointless Park" which has already cost us over $8,000,000 in direct cost and opportunity cost.
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