County works on urban park strategy

From the Detroit News:
Oakland County Parks may have everything from water slides and golf courses to hiking trails and a refrigerated toboggan run, but critics say one outdoorsy element is clearly missing: a bigger presence in the county's densely populated southeast end.

Of the county's 11 parks and golf courses, only two -- Red Oaks Water Park and Glen Oaks Golf Course -- are in the southeast, even though nearly 40 percent of the county's 1.2 million residents live there.

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