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Orange Audubon and city preview designs for Apopka Birding Park education center
Summary
Orange Audubon Society and the city showed conceptual designs to renovate a former nursery building into an education center at Apopka Birding Park, highlighting restoration work, invasive species control, and a zero‑energy concept with rainwater capture and solar arrays.
City parks staff and the Orange Audubon Society updated the council Oct. 16 on progress toward developing the Apopka Birding Park on the former Hickerson nursery site.
Bradley Williams, parks and recreation director, introduced the project and noted the ground lease finalized in March 2024 with Orange Audubon. Deborah Green, Orange Audubon president, outlined restoration priorities including removal of concrete pads left by burned greenhouses, treatment of invasive cogongrass,…
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