NEWS RELEASES
Orange County Plans Expansion of Horizon West Park
Editor's Note: This news item was retrieved and first published through The Orange Observer's website.
A park planned for the Horizon West community, about 11 times the size of any existing Orange County park, will be 220-acres located north of New Independence Parkway, southeast of State Road 429 and west of Tiny Road. Presently, Horizon West Regional Park is used for hiking and horseback riding, but the county plans to revamp the park with several amenities. The future park will be one-third the size of New York’s Central Park.
Orange Observer writer Gabby Baquero speaks with Orange County District 1 Commissioner Betsy VanderLey and relays what he had to say in her article: “The county has owned that piece of property and has intended it for a park for a very long time, but we just recently started to jell around a particular vision for the park,” VanderLey said. “We just signed a contract with a master planner to help us envision what’s going to go in the park, how it’s going to fit in, how it’s to be laid out, and figure out who our public-private partnerships might be.” The timeline for the park’s construction depends on funding, and a cost estimate for the park is not yet known because the park is only in its preliminary planning phases.
For more details and input from the Orange County District 1 Commissioner, click here.