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Lee County Parks & Recreation Park Score Analysis

Lakes Regional Park

Lee County Park System

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US 41

Summerlin Rd

County ParksHalf Mile Access0 0.25 0.50.125 Miles

Above: Lee County Parks and Recreation SystemService Area Analysis Above: Lakes Regional Park and service areas at two entrances. Service area is defined bya half-mile, or about a ten-minute walk, along a public road network. This process identifiesthe percentage of the population living within the half-mile service area.

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Poster and analysis by George Sprehn and Dan Calvert, Lee County Parks and Recreation November 2012

Percent of unincorporated Lee County population served by park system.

¹ County ParksCity Limits ¹0 3.5 71.75

Miles

This project uses the methodologies of ParkScore, a rating system bythe Trust for Public Land, to rate Lee County's parks and recreation.ParkScore ranks 40 US cities by park acreage, service and investment,and access. Points are awarded in each category, normalized, andranked. Here, Lee County is likewise rated and ranked with the cities.(See TPL at http://parkscore.tpl.org/methodology.php for full details)

Park Score

0.0 2.0 4.0 6.0 8.0 10.0 12.0 14.0

TOTAL POP SERVED

Below 18

18 TO 64

Above 64

Percent Served within 10-minute walk

Age C

ategor

y

Percent Served by Age

Raw Score Park Score17.5= 21 of 120

Lee County Parks and Recreation Park Score

TPL's ParkScores of 40 major US cities range from 21.5 to 74.0

+ +

Service andInvestment

Service and Investment measures resource commitment to parks. Pointsare awarded in equally weighted categories: playgrounds per residentand spending per resident. In TPL's national sample of 40 cities,playgrounds per 10,000 residents range 1 - 5, median 1.89, and spendingper resident ranges $31 to $303 with a median of $85.

9 of 40

In the Service and Investment category up to 40 points can be awarded,split equally between Spending per Resident (20) and Playgrounds per10,000 Residents (20). Lee County earns 4 of 20 and 5 of 20, respectively, gaining 9 of 40 points overall. This places Lee County at the nationalmedian of $85 in spending per resident, and just below the nationalmedian of 1.87 playgrounds per 10,000 residents at 1.53.

Spending per Resident: $84.82

4 of 20 PointsPlaygrounds per

10,000 Residents:1.53

5 of 20 Points

In the Access category up to 40 points can be awarded. Lee Countyearns 1 of 40 points at 12% of unincorporated residents served.This places Lee County below TPL's national sample of 40 cities( median 57%). Lee County's score is representative of a largecounty area as opposed to ParkScore's city areas.

1 of 40

ServicedPopulation

12%

The Access category measures the percent of the population living withina half-mile, or about a 10-minute walk, of a park's entrance. The servicearea is determined by network analysis. Points awarded are based onTPL's national sample of 40 cities, the range is 26 to 97 percent witha median of 57 percent.

Access AcreageThe Acreage category takes into account the influence of regional parks.Points are based on TPL's national sample, where median park sizeranges from 0.6 to 19.9 acres, median 4.9 acres, and park acres as apercentage of city area ranges from 2.3 to 22.8 percent, with amedian of 9.1 percent.

Median Park Size:6.3 acres

7 of 20 PointsPark Land as

Percent of County Area: 4.9%

4 of 20 Points 11 of 40

In the Acreage catagory up to 40 points can be awarded splitequally between Median Park Size (20) and Park Lands asPercent of County Area (20). Lee County earns 7 of 20 and4 of 20, respectively. This places Lee County (6.3 acres) aboveTPL's median of 4.9 acres median park size. Lee County's 4.9percent is below the mean of 9.1 percent in the Park Lands asPercent of County Area category.