Editing Parkland, Florida (section)

== History == 
On July 10, 1963, a city charter was passed upon legislative approval after actively supported through the Florida State House of Representatives as House bill 2079, guided through the Florida House with the aid of Representative Emerson Alsworth Esq., from the original idea of a city charter for an unincorporated rural ranch style open spaced town of founder and local farmer, rancher, veteran, and politician Bruce Blount. Early on, Blount put up tracts of his private land, calling his town BBB Ranches, in his original attempts for official recognition. Rep. Alsworth would facilitate this process of approval by adding in the bill the name of the proposed town as Parkland, a description befitting Blount's initial proposal of an undeveloped town out of the way of the building boon of [[Broward County]]. And after a passing vote in July, on August 12, 1963, Parkland was officially recognized as a city of the state of Florida, by [[C. Farris Bryant]], the [[Governor of Florida]]. Blount would go on to be the inaugural mayor of Parkland, previously having served as mayor and city commissioner of [[Pompano Beach]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.cityofparkland.org/916/Interactive-and-Static-Maps | title=Interactive and Static Maps &#124; Parkland, FL }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QofKhk05hM4 | title=Parkland 60th Throughout the Years | website=[[YouTube]] }}</ref>

On February 14, 2018, at the site of [[Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School]], the lone public high school in Parkland, became the scene of a [[Stoneman Douglas High School shooting|deadly mass shooting]] perpetrated by [[Nikolas Cruz]], a former student of the school. Surpassing the death toll at [[Columbine High School]], the Stoneman Douglas shooting became the fifth deadliest shooting at a school inside of the United States.