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Commission Makes Changes in $400M Land Acquisition Program

BROWARD COUNTY-Two years into the county's $400 million Safe Parks and Land Preservation Bond Program, commissioners are re-designating acquisition funds--$19.3 million most recently--from conservation lands to open-space properties.

By Barbra Murray | Updated on June 17, 2002

BROWARD COUNTY-Broward County Commission officials have decided that $19.3 million of the $400 million Safe Parks and Land Preservation Bond Program will be redirected to purchasing land for open-space projects, as opposed to buying designated conservation lands and green spaces. The decision comes as a result of unforeseen competition from eager developers in buying up the area’s environmentally valuable property. To date, the commission has purchased six of 131 sites on the list of conservation lands and greens paces to acquire.

Established by voters in 2000, the program’s purpose is twofold: to reclaim 1,425 acres of conservation land, green space and open space for preservation; and to upgrade the park system. “Our county’s remaining undeveloped natural lands are disappearing,” commissioner Kristin Jacobs says in a letter to constituents just before the program’s approval. “If the pace of today’s development continues, in four years there won’t be any undeveloped natural lands left.”

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