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F n 2 1z 4: �- A �' f } t � 2• rFl}� Chapel Mill wants facility built PARK in stages near Southern Ad a e FRO M PAGE 1 R RAY GRG � R � RG " adult teams. Planners said the rec Y ommendation was a concession to their prospective counterparts at gronberg@herald-sun. com; 918-1032 neighbors who wanted much of the Southern Community Park, CHAPEL HILL — A park next to park site left untouched. Construction at Southern Commu- Southern Village should i # The third field envisioned by their nity Park remains years. away, three full-size soccer fields, instead draft was big enough only for prac- though the council made sure to tell nclude of just the two' a design panel read tice or youth-league play. Council Horton they want advice on how the ommended, Town Council members members quickly traded it for work could get started within the another full size play surface. next couple of years. say. They agreed that even if Orange Before it begins, architects need The council voted to add the third County's government uses a $2 mil- to It turn a conceptual plan into a field in the course of approving a lion "soccer superfund" to build a detailed set of construction draw. concept plan for Southern Commu- multi field soccer complex near nity Park, a 70-acre facility likely to p mgs. The council also has to hold become the last of its type built in town, plenty of demand would hearings and approve the requisite Chapel Hill. remain. zoning permits. Members also ordered lbwnMan- Building Southern Community Orange County has* pledged $2.9 ager Cal Horton to come up with a - Park with only two of the bigger million to the p . roject. A bond issue construction schedule that would fields would amount to underserv= approved late in 2001 will supply $2 allow them to build the new park in uig awell-established need in the stages . community, Councilman Jim Ward -- Since the timing and scale of each said. phase will depend on how much . Some of Ward's colleagues said money's available, "there are going the town had made that mistake in million. Another approved in 1997 the past, to its eventual regret. accounts for the rest. to be some tough choices about what "It's the biggest complaint we Money from the 2001 bond isn't the first part of it should be," said hear about Homestead Park," Couni likely to start flowing to the project Councilman Bill Strom. cilwoman Flicka Bateman # said, before 2005, officials say. Strom and his colleagues added referring to a mid4990s project Strom and other council members the third soccer field to the plan after a short discussion last week. Air near the co ort roads .comer of Homestead and hope local governments can use � There was no dissent, p i $895,000 left over for the park in the The design panel had sugested Homestead Park includes two 1997 bond issue to jump-start con Iqh,orbuilding three fields but o:iily two soccer fields, both smaller than struction. would have been large enou h .for "The plan has been remarkably g g please see PARK/PAGE. 8 well-received," Strom said. "And, hopefully, we'll be well under way in short prder."