The City of Florence is committed to preserving
green space for parks and recreation. This is
the best legacy we can leave to future
generations. Whether parks are designed for
active recreation with ball fields and tennis
courts, or passive recreation with walking
trails and benches, they are necessary
components for a community’s quality of life.
Take the time to visit each of our City’s parks
– even the new ones under development. You’ll
be pleasantly surprised at how our parks system
has grown.
The Parks and Recreation
Department strives to achieve a variety of goals with
the Grounds Management Policy. These goals include:
A.
Maintain safe and clean
facilities.
B. Provide a compelling vision for the future of the
City and its parks.
C.
Provide involvement and
contribution opportunities for neighborhoods,
volunteers,
and individuals.
D.Create,
preserve and enhance green space and park linkage
systems.
E.Beautify
and visually enhance the City’s open space system.
Florence currently
contains two fully developed public parks, three
developing parks, and two minimal service parks. These
lands provide an opportunity which Florence can use to
enhance the quality of life of its residents. Full
development of these parklands will go a long way
toward providing the City with a recognizable identity
in the region. A successful parks program helps to make
the City attractive to potential home buyers.
The Department supports
the addition of new parks into the City’s park system.
New developments are often required to provide open
space and park opportunities within the development.
These areas are sometimes offered to the City for new
parks. These lands are typically unimproved. When the
City acquires lands for a new park, a master plan for the
development of the park is implemented.
The park development policy of the Department is to make
incremental improvements over time based upon a City
Council-approved master plan of the park. These
improvements are funded through the City’s capital
budget in lieu of a bond issuance for funding.
The Department is
responsible for a wide range of tasks at the City
parks. A cooperative agreement exists between the Boone
County Parks & Recreation Department (BCPR) and the City
of Florence.In
general, the BCPR is responsible for the day-to-day
scheduling of the facilities, restroom cleaning, bulk
grass cutting, trash collection, refurbishment of clay
infields and mulch play area surfaces, tennis court
pavement surfaces, and fencing/backstop maintenance of two
parks; Lincoln Woods & Florence Nature Park.
