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Mayor Demings highlights parks system growth, cites staff and visitor figures
Summary
Mayor Demings used the Watermark Park opening to highlight Orange County's parks system growth, citing figures for acreage, staff and annual visitors and linking park expansion to recent population growth in the county.
At the Watermark Park opening, Mayor Demings framed the new park as part of a growing county parks system and cited numerical measures of that growth.
"This 5.69 acre park represents a 1,800,000 investment," Demings said, adding that the division is responsible for roughly 115 parks, trails and facilities. He also stated the division has a "full time staff of 300 employees" and "serves more than 16,000,000 visitors and program participants annually."
Demings connected the need for parks to population trends, saying the county previously grew by a net of "nearly 1000 new people moving here every week" and that the pace had slowed to "somewhere around 700 to 800". He used those figures to explain why the county continues to invest in open space and recreational infrastructure.
The mayor also acknowledged neighborhood concerns about parking and restrooms at the new site, calling Watermark Park a neighborhood "walk up park" intended to operate in partnership with the adjacent school and saying the county will address amenities over time.
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