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| Robert Stanton | 6/11/2012 6:05:53 PM |
| I am opposed to the expansion of the two South High School ballfields beyond what was approved on the original site plan. The fields were slated to be practice only for the use of South High due to the close proximity of neighborhood homes. Nothing has changed over the years to alter that fact. Title 21 has apparently been approved after 20 years or so of debate and discussion and, as outlined in the Turnagain View Estates Homeowner's Association comments, the proposed site plan amendment would violate a number of the Title 21 rules and regulations. I and my neighbors depend on the Planning & Zoning Commission to protect the public from the Municipal planning staff or other governmental agencies when their actions are clearly out of line and inappropriate. I'm hopeful that you will do the right thing. We all must abide by the same rule of law - no exceptions. | |
| Don Enslow | 6/11/2012 9:09:57 AM |
| I have been involved in community baseball programs in Anchorage for 20 years coaching boys in little league at 5 years old and young men up to 19 years of age in Alaska American Legion Baseball. I had the privelege to coach Taylar Youngs for one year in JV HS baseball. I am a firm believer that our youth require activities that both keep them mentally and physically active as well as understand the dynamics of working with a team. I have 3 sons that have all played Alaska Baseball and one son that was lucky enough to play a couple years of College Baseball. In the community of baseball coaches in North America I am constantly reminded that Alaska Baseball is not the same caliber as what is played in the Lower 48 - to include quality of facilities. The Taylar Youngs field at SAHS is a gift to the community and a privelege to be associated with. Hours of time will be spent by young Alaskans in playing games with teams from all over the state as well as potentially sharing some games for the BP Tournament - with teams from all over the USA. The city is currently eliminating 2 fields at at the "K" Fields complex near the Sullivan Arena (for a parking lot) and our young people deserve the opportunity to play at respectable fields. I have always been impressed with the many trail systems in the Anchorage area and open spaces for the community to use in a variety of ways and I do not believe that this field will restrict accessibility for families to enjoy the open spaces of our city. I am frankly surprised that we are even having this debate. | |
| Tammy Howell | 6/9/2012 8:52:11 PM |
| I have been a homeowner in Turnagain View Estates Subdivision since 2005 and resident of Alaska since 1975. In researching a home purchase, it was understood that we would be living in proximity to SAHS and the PRACTICE FIELDS that were identified and in place since the schools' construction. These fields have been part of the South Anchorage Community and open to that community for use of kids, families, etc for practice, pick-up games, and general outdoor informal play. Since formalization has begun, gates and fences are now around the fields, locks are in place, restricting use by the community. Taxpayers of South Anchorage at large are now paying for restricted fields that are being supervised by whom...the ASD, the American Legion, the SAHS Principal, the family of Taylar Young, the SAHS Boosters? Sadly, this project has been off-base since its inception by misdirecting those trying to do a good thing. The ASD did not manage their property well, the Boosters were misdirected and had the original hard work of those who established SAHS been honored, the heartaches mentioned in the comments could have been averted. The fields of SAHS SHOULD REMAIN FOR PRACTICE and the community should rally for the Taylar Young family and Anchorage baseball for appropriate fields NOT PERPETUATE HEARTACHE. This is not an honor to Mr. Young and the game of baseball. In addition, it is my understanding that the seating construction that occurred last year was not to code and this is why the existing stands are not deemed suitable by the city for use. Again, the practice fields should remain and a suitable venue be promoted for GAMES, considering ASD's desire to promote a near commercial entity. | |
| Lori Galloway | 6/6/2012 11:01:22 PM |
| I strongly support the completion and usage of the Taylar Young Baseball Field at South High School. Someone commented that living near a school with a baseball field & football field as being a negative. With 4 sons and 7 grandchildren, I see it differently and as a positive! Perhaps these folks can choose to put their energies into other very important causes and come out and enjoy the ball games with the rest of us who are eager to watch these young athletes play on a first class field they, and the community, can be proud of. A puzzlement - why would anyone expect ball fields at a brand new high school to play only practice games on its fields? Taylar Young's very loving family and the South High School baseball team & supporters have jumped through hoops to accommodate as many of the rules, regs and concerns, within their control, of every regulatory body and school neighbor that has crossed their path with something that needs to be considered, added, or corrected before they play ball. It's been 3 years in the making - let's don't waste another summer season on indecision. Take us out to the ball game! | |
| Rhonda Gerharz | 6/6/2012 8:09:23 AM |
| I strongly support completion of the Taylar Young Memorial Baseball Field at South High School. Furthermore, I strongly support ALL grounds improvements at ALL Anchorage area schools. There is nothing more positive and worthwhile than ensuring our youth have a sense of themselves, family, and community. There is no better place to do this than at their own schools. I urge the P&Z to focus on deciding what is best for the greater good in Anchorage, especially when it is something like this that so positively affects youth and community. | |
| Donovan Korach | 6/5/2012 8:43:24 PM |
| Zone and Planning: 5 June 2012 I Don Korach owner resident of 3901 Stargazer Circle, which backs up to the south side of the South High football field. I have attended meetings in the past voicing my concern for the lack proper noise and light abatement from South High sports fields. I attended the original city console meetings on the planned school in the early 2000s South High to be installed behind my house. One of the promise and assurances made to the local residences at these meetings, that only practice and B games were going to be played on these fields. Now after the school is installed and several years have passed, the school board wants to do A games at South High and games of any level, other school’s games, even non-school related games, plus bleachers, refreshment stands (litter issue), etc. I believe this makes this a commercial endeavor. Obviously your promises don’t mean much. I think the law will be broken unless proper noise and lighting abatement is installed first. I will be happy join any legal action necessary to stop you from skirting the codes and laws of this city. The city has not protect my residence from these issues. My house looks directly into the foot ball field and the back of the baseball field. I see some trees have been planted, but nothing to shield my residence from this. If you allow these games, without addressing the noise and lighting issue, I believe I will be damged by the city for not enforcing the city codes and laws. Sincerely, Don Korach | |
| Marion Davis | 6/5/2012 5:44:12 PM |
| As grandfather of Taylar Young I am writing in support of the new baseball field located at South High in his memory. Taylar was lost in a tragic parking lot accident in May 2009 right after walking off the baseball field at the Mulcahy Sport Complex. Taylar was an avid baseball player and loved the game. To that extent we became aware of adequate ground adjacent to South High that could support a baseball field. Family, coaches, and many friends approached the Anchorage School District Board who passed a Resolution both naming the field in memory of Taylar as well as use of the field. In going through application for the building permit we were referred to the Urban Design Commission who approved the project. This decision was then appealed by some homeowners in the area; however, the orginal decision held in favor of the baseball field. We started this project late summer of 2009 and now some 3 years have passed and the facility is 90% complete. Then a disagreement over whether the orginal application shold have been with UDC or Planning and Zoning Commission arose that has halted the project. Certainly none of this arose at the time of the UDC meetings. The location of the baseball field is behind the school with the outfield in an easterly direction. Plenty of room to fit in the field with home plate being closest to the school with the outfield going easterly. East of the outfield fence is ample footage to a surrounding path and then woods/greenbelt continuing east and deep! None of the natural wooded surroundings were disturbed during construction of the baseball field. In fact, some trees have been added. there is plenty of buffer surrounding the field. We hear the term 'stadium' tossed around a lot lately. Mr. Webster defines a "stadium" as "a LARGE oval, round, or U-shaped usually open structure, as for football, baseball, track events, etc., with tiers of seats for THOUSANDS of spectators. Taylar Field will seat 188 folks. Certainly not a 'stadium" as defined. Today there is adequate parking for some 1,600 students that attend South High. As one can easily see there is ample palrking for 188 baseball fans. There are no lights requested. School hours are from 0600-2300hrs each day. Today folks use the school facility during these hours. If you have not been out to the field, please do so. We have worked hard to ensure that this field is very nicely appointed and a worthwhile improvment to the campus of South. Alaska has generally been "behind the curve ball" when it comes to adequate facilities. Its certainly not uncommon to have a baseball field on a school campus. Its the pride of the school, their field, and something to be proud of. Nothing wrong with this. This whole area has a wide range of uses. A zoo, golf course, school, many churches, nearby Fred Meyer mall, horses, chickens, businesses probably operated out of homes, and numberous types of dwellings and sheds. And finally, attempts by some (TVEHA who out of some 160 residents in this group only had at a recent meeting 56 yes and 24 no for continuing to spend monies opposing the baseball field) is simply their advance statement in opposing the possibility of a football field with seating and lights. The theory being stop Taylar Field and perhaps the chances of stopping future football improvements would be greater. The baseball field should be completed as planned. Any future objections to any football improvements can certainly be raised at the time of the application. Both of these projects were seperated at the HOCC as well as the UDC. Folks, there is no found reason that this baseball field should not be completed and used as intended at South High and should not be held hostage to possible future football improvements. Marion Davis/ Grandfather- Taylar Young | |
| Alex Slivka | 6/4/2012 10:08:44 PM |
| This response is being submitted on behalf of the Turnagain View Estates Homeowners Association, as approved at their meeting on June 4, 2012. BACKGROUND We want to be clear at the beginning that we support the athletic activities of our children, and we believe that the current facilities at South Anchorage High School are more than sufficient to support these activities. We also want to remind all parties that the idea of baseball and football stadiums was thoroughly explored during the original design process in 2000. It was promised in writing (ASD memo #22 dated 8/14/00) at that time that these facilities would be practice only, due to the limited physical dimensions, and that all varsity games would be played on other municipal and ASD fields. Nothing has changed in the physical dimensions of the site that would change this conclusion. The neighborhood surrounding South Anchorage High is similar to Service High in that both are located on the Hillside, and thus subject to the Hillside District Plan. There are homes within 100 feet of the athletic fields. It is this close proximity, and thus the inability to comply with Title 21 requirements to buffer the noise and light impact of dissimilar uses, that lead both ASD and Planning and Zoning to agree that the fields should be practice only. The current conflict can be place squarely at the feet of the Planning Department; 1. Their staff encouraged the incorrect application to Urban Design Commission. 2. Their staff has actively withheld personal knowledge of the “practice only” agreement reached in 2000. 3. Their staff accepted the illegal site plan amendment in March 2011 (not signed by the property owner) 4. Their staff approved the work permit 10-4848 in July 2011 before the UDC order was finalized in September 2011, and before any appeal could be filed. 5. Their staff has actively ignored ASD non-compliance with the Special Limitations imposed by the Planning and Zoning Commission (2001-088). A recently filed code violation complaint was dismissed two days after being filed, with no investigation of the facts conducted. 6. Their staff openly ignored acknowledged errors in the UDC decision. 7. Their staff openly stated that South High would not receive the same consideration that Dimond High had in regard to noise mitigation efforts. SPECIFIC TO THE SITE PLAN AMENDMENT We do agree with all parties that reasonable use of the current baseball field is permitted. We disagree on some important points: 1. The visual buffering along the perimeter, as mandated under 2001-088, does not meet the stated requirements. The applicant “cherry picks” the very solid buffering to the north and northwest, and ignores the inadequate buffer along the west and southwest. 2. Reasonable use could be defined as 2 to 4 games per week. The applicant asks for “full use” which would be 4 games PER DAY. This intensity of use does not fit the low density of the surrounding area. 3. Applicant has ignored repeated requests from the surrounding neighborhood to post signs along Leyden drive restricting parking for school site activities, and take reasonable steps to limit activities on the site between the hours of 11pm and 6am. 4. Due to the close proximity of homes, we ask that any activity during periods when school is not in session be restricted to the hours of 10 AM to 9 PM. General Site Plan Standards: this site is located on the hillside in a predominately low density neighborhood (roughly 60% of the immediate neighborhood is zoned R-6). As such, any use beyond school hours should be limited in duration and intensity. The application is silent on intensity of use; we ask that the Commission designate special limitations to set explicit hours of use and intensity that reflect the predominately low density of the neighborhood. Specifically: 1. Any operation outside the time that school is in session is limited to the hours of 10AM to 9PM. 2. Use of the Baseball Stadium is limited to 2 to 4 games per week. Factual Errors in applicants’ narrative. 1. The site improvements are not being done by ASD. The improvements have been driven by a private group unrelated to ASD. 2. ASD has indicated that use and scheduling of the proposed Baseball Stadium will be controlled by a private group; thus putting public property in the control of a private entity. 3. The benefits of this site plan review will accrue to private entities; the field has been locked for over a year, excluding public use. 4. Pursuant to the stipulation order signed by both the Municipality and the ASD on May 4, 2012, there is no legal approval for the 98% completed structure, nor is there an active work permit. 5. The proposed illuminated Scoreboard is clearly visible by nearby residences. 6. Both the private supporters of this project and the ASD actively avoided engaging the local community until the last possible moment. 7. A relevant parking study has not been conducted. The original parking study was done in 2000 with the specific limitation that the fields would be practice only, and all varsity games would be held elsewhere. 8. The visual buffering along the perimeter, as mandated under 2001-088, does not meet the stated requirements. The applicant “cherry picks” the very solid buffering to the north and northwest, and ignores the inadequate buffer along the west and southwest. 9. The surrounding area is low density; the “significant non-residential uses” quoted in the application are all at least ½ mile from the site. 10. The area surrounding South High is low density residential. The growth based scenarios in the Hillside District Plan project that it will remain so for the foreseeable future. 11. The development of athletic stadiums is opposed by the Turnagain View Estates Homeowners Association, the Huffman O’Malley Community Council, and the Hillside Area Land Owners. THE GOVERNING LAW, TITLE 21, HILLSIDE DISTRICT PLAN, ANCHORAGE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN Title 21, chapter 21.05 Comprehensive Plan 21.05.025 Goals. A. To create a living environment of the highest possible quality based on comprehensive planning…F. To ensure that the natural environment is enhanced, maintained and protected by establishing standards for the protection of soil, vegetation, air, sound, and sight. 21.03.080.C.7. Any significant adverse impacts anticipated to result from the use will be mitigated or offset to the maximum extent feasible. 21.03.160.G Special Limitations. 1. To prohibit structures, or uses of land or structures, that would adversely affect the surrounding neighborhood or conflict with the comprehensive plan, or…D. to mitigate the adverse effects of development under the zoning map amendment on the natural environment, the surrounding neighborhood…. 21.45.200 Transition and buffering standards: E. 1. A transition space shall accomplish one or more of the following objectives as appropriate under the circumstances: a. materially obscure the visual outlines of the buildings on the more intensely developed lot from the adjacent protected lot. c. diminish the impact of noise from the more intensely developed lot from the adjacent protected lot. HILLSIDE DISTRICT PLAN, incorporated into the Comprehensive Plan in 2010. In its growth projections, the area surrounding South High is expected to remain low density and that the defining characteristics of quiet streets and dark night skies will remain undisturbed. Lighting Standards, Policy 14-0, similar to light standards under Title 21. The Hillside District Plan promotes this lighting standard to help preserve the “dark sky” character that many hillside residents wish to preserve in residential areas. CONCLUSION No one has presented any evidence for the community need this stadium would satisfy. There are numerous stadiums throughout the Municipality that can support baseball games WITHOUT the adverse impacts that full use of the proposed Baseball Stadium would have on the surrounding low-density neighborhood. In fact, both the ASD staff and board have been curiously silent on any statement of need. The field has been built with disregard to the correct zoning practice, and the Planning Department has taken multiple steps to actively diminish the opportunity for community input. We respectfully request that use of the Taylar Young Field be restricted to the hours of 10AM to 9PM, that use be restricted to the “practice” nature promised during the original design, and that ASD be directed to comply with the existing Special Limitations. We ask that the surrounding neighborhood be consulted on the scheduled use of the baseball field. We ask that “no parking” signs be posted along Leyden Drive and Eastwind Drive. | |
| Kathi Gallagher | 6/1/2012 8:11:31 PM |
| I support the field improvements at South High School. What a fabulous baseball field South High students and our community have helped develop! It will be a wonderful memorial to a young man who was the heartbeat of South's baseball team. Please do not let the loud voices of a few stop this project from being completed and utilized by many. | |
| Christopher West | 5/31/2012 6:21:40 PM |
| I support the baseball field improvents at South High. It's a worthwhile addition to our community and provides a much needed facility for our youth to play sports in South Anchorage. | |
| Lisa West | 5/31/2012 6:09:37 PM |
| I strongly support the Taylar Young Memorial Baseball Field at South Anchorage High School. Our South players and Community not only NEED this field, but WANT it too. Let's continue to move forward with this great addition to the South Anchorage Community. | |
| Jacqueline Hoover | 5/26/2012 8:36:16 AM |
| I'm writing to you regarding the field improvements to South Anchorage High School - specifically, the Taylar Young field. As a parent, athlete, teacher and community member, I believe these fields provide a phenomenal asset to our community. This field allows a place for people to gather, enjoy the company of others, build relationships and enjoy taking part as spectators or players in competitive athletic competitions. It allows athletes a location to challenge themselves, test and enhance their personal physical and mental skills. It mandates players to use communicative skills and work as a team to achieve a goal. It has the potential to be the origin of community pride and numerous, fond memories. The building, completion and utilization of this field is a positive endeavor for our community both young and old. As a member of Turnagain View Estates Homeowners Association (TVEHA) please do NOT believe the rant of the Homeowner's president. He represents a far smaller group of members in our association than he wants others to believe. If you have any further questions, I'd be happy to hear from and talk with you. | |
| Ann Marie Valdez | 5/25/2012 3:46:22 PM |
| My son currently plays baseball and football for South Anchorage High School AND we also live very close to the school and these proposed ball fields/stadiums. The Taylar Young Memorial ballpark is 90-95% completed and our kids are ready and excited to play some games at this beautiful new complex. The Young family along with the entire South baseball family have worked so hard to "give back" to our entire community following the tragic death of Taylar 3 years ago by building this amazing facility in his memory. The last ditch efforts of a few selfish, greedy neighbors to stall our park completion and use is downright wrong. Many of us who live next to the school embrace these projects and look forward to the day when our kids can have a true "home game" experience. As for the homeowners who are afraid that the fields will negatively affect their home values... There are plenty of other folks who want to live next to South and would pay more for a home in this location, so you might consider moving instead of causing more grief. By the way, if you have ever been to a high school baseball game, you will notice that the majority of the fans in the stands are parents and close friends of the players. We are not a rowdy, loud bunch! | |
| John Micks, Ph.D., CRC | 5/25/2012 1:03:30 PM |
| I am a South Anchorage resident who has a son playing baseball for South Anchorage High School. I am also a licenses marriage and family counselor and a certified rehabilitation counselor. This probably doesn't matter much to the committee, though I needed to provide some background. I do not know how things have gotten this far to withhold activities that lead to a field where high school students can blow off steam, participate in organized activities and compete in an important, lifelong sport. I am sure the committee members, to the person, have participated in at least one organized sport or you probably would not be on a committee that makes decisions about what is best for the community they serve. By this I mean it is the facets of organized sports that require thinking beyond oneself and about how those around contribute. It teaches us so many important lesions about life and success. I appeal to your sense of community to do the right thing for this generation and generations to come, and let the games begin, the learning how to work as a team (committee) and achieving results through hard work and commitment.Thank you for doing he community a favor and allowing the high school to do their job developing good citizens who get involved like yourselves. | |
| Heather Dudick | 5/25/2012 12:42:02 PM |
| I ask you to please recognize the importance of supporting the completion of the Taylor Young Memorial Ballpark. Our local youth don't have many options these days for places to gather for youth activities. Anchorage’s youth deserve the opportunity to learn character traits such as teamwork, sportsmanship, integrity, respect, and responsibility, just to name a few -- and they have been engaged. Moving forward with the completion of the sports field at South is truly a necessity and will provide this opportunity for our youth. And ask the question: What message is shutting down the field completion sending? After all the hard work, all are left with no dedication ceremony, no baseball games and no gathering place. To further the injustice of the situation, there has been a total lack of regard for Taylor's family and all that has been done in his memory, which is meant to benefit all of our local youth. To echo Taylor’s father's words: myself, family and many close friends of Taylar have worked very diligently to build a ballpark that Taylar would not only be proud to play on, but humbly honored that it be named in his memory - it's a place to come together, for youth to play the game he loved to play - it's a place where he will be remembered in the ultimate way - and it's a place for future baseball players to be able to enjoy the game the they love playing. Please, I'm asking for your support and that the field completion be approved. The majority of the community has come together on this -- and now we need your support. | |
| Terri Bradley | 5/25/2012 12:30:17 PM |
| The SAHS community has come together and labored and raised funds and poured their hearts into completion of the Taylar Young Baseball field to honor the memory of an SAHS high school athlete who died in a tragic accident. This is what great communities and neighborhoods do. The athletic fields at SAHS are a positive addition to our city as they provide another place that will draw the community together to partake in events that inspire greatness, camaraderie and teamwork. The memorial field will also serve as a reminder to all that life is so very fragile. The benefits that the completion of the SAHS athletic fields will have on the neighborhood and community far outweigh any questionable negative effects (dust and crowd noise - seriously?) that a few neighboring homeowners may experience with their completion. Please make the best and right decision for our community and approve completion of the SAHS athletic fields. | |
| Susan Klimow | 5/25/2012 12:00:54 PM |
| I am very much in favor of the much needed and anticipated opening of the completed Taylar Young Baseball Field at South Anchorage High School. I hope to see baseball played on the field the summer of 2012, while sitting in the new bleachers and eating popcorn, from the new completed snack shack. Completion of the Taylar Young Baseball Field, including bleachers, snack shack, announcers booth are a priority to this Southside Anchorage parent. Please continue to support this field/facility which will be well utilized for years to come by many youth of the Anchorage Baseball Community. Thank you. Susan Klimow, M.D. | |
| Nick Karnos | 5/25/2012 11:08:41 AM |
| There has never been a better use of School district property as a community, student, and district collaboration than the Taylor Young Baseball field. Bringing baseball into the community and allowing the students of South High to be proud of their field makes the completion and use of this resource grossly outweigh whatever concerns have been fabricated in opposition. There have been 4 years worth of students, parents, and staff involved with creating a "dream field". Anything that stands in opposition to this fields completion and subsequent use should be viewed with extreme skepticism and cannot represent the views of anyone but the most jaded, bitter, and contrary in our society. | |
| Blythe Campbell | 5/25/2012 11:06:08 AM |
| I support the use of Taylar Young field for High School and American Legion and other baseball games - including the bleachers and concession stand. There is a a big difference between a football stadium and a baseball stadium and I believe there can be a different decision made with regard to each. The baseball field location has a good buffer zone to nearby homes on all sides. Realistically, the baseball season in is very short - from the time the snow melts in mid May until the end of August. High school and American Legion baseball rosters are limited to 18 players each - football rosters are 48 players each. For most of the baseball season, school is not in session, which is probably the reason that baseball games do not attract the crowds that football games attract; there is no Homecoming, for example. My son's JV baseball games have been attended by no more than 20 fans on each side for the entire month of May. Baseball is a great family sport and we should welcome the opportunity to have baseball fields in our neighborhoods. | |
| Rachel Hatcher | 5/25/2012 10:55:26 AM |
| THIS IS A RIDICULOUS WASTE OF TIME. HOMEOWNERS PURCHASING A HOME NEAR A SCHOOL HAVE NO RIGHT TO RESTRICT DEVELOPMENT OF NORMAL SCHOOL IMPROVEMENTS SUCH AS A BASEBALL OR FOOTBALL FIELD. THESE ARE THINGS YOU ACCEPT IN BUYING A HOME IN THIS AREA. PERHAPS YOU GET A BETTER PRICE FOR THIS REASON. PLEASE DON'T LET A FEW REGRETFUL HOMEOWNERS LIMIT THE OPPORTUNITIES FOR THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN. THESE HOMEOWENERS ARE CURRENTLY WASTING OUR TAX DOLLARS ON A NON-NEGOTIABLE ISSUE. LETS MOVE FORWARD WITH WHAT WAS PLANNED AND APPROVED FOR SOUTH HIGH! | |
| karen cucullu | 5/25/2012 10:42:52 AM |
| Taylar Young was a teammate of my son's - the boys/parents/family/community have worked hard on this field, hands on & fund raising, to build this field in memory of Taylar and the boys are very excited to play on this field - it would be an atrocity to deny the boys to complete this field and play on it. | |
| Kristen Davis | 5/24/2012 12:58:44 PM |
| I need to respond to the coninued usage of the word "stadium" for the south field improvements. The definition a stadium is "seating surrounding the entire field or stage". This does not apply to south field improvements. | |
| Kristen Davis | 5/24/2012 11:12:30 AM |
| The Taylar Young Memorial Ball park will do nothing but ad value to the south community. Local business, players, parents, and individuals across anchorage have donated their time, money and resources to help bring to life the first baseball field to a high school. It's sad when you have few adult individuals, be so narrow minded and think of only themselves and not the good of the community as a whole. I am a native Alaskan who gre up in a pro community, athletic and academic family and we all pitched in to do our best to suuport youth growth in all areas. Let's Play Some Ball! | |
| Loree Jensen | 5/23/2012 6:50:59 PM |
| I am in favor of the Taylar Young Memorial Baseball Field at South Anchorage High School. | |
| David Kolesky | 5/23/2012 3:32:49 PM |
| I am in favor of the Tayler Young Memorial baseball field at South High School. It is a fine example of a community effort, to provide a safe environment for the youth to participate in the great AMREICAN PASTIME of Baseball. Play Ball David G Kolesky | |
| martha enslow | 5/23/2012 2:58:51 PM |
| I don't understand!!!! Taylar Young Baseball Field got a permit to build a YEAR ago. NOW the TVEHA is making legal wrangling to stop the park!!!! The park is needed in the community, it allows the students and locals to enjoy our great outdoors in a safe place. The park is 90-95% done and done RIGHT, it is a very esthetically pleasing site. The ballfield will not hurt the value of the neighborhood as much as mean spirited homeowners will!! | |
| Philip Hughes | 5/23/2012 2:55:49 PM |
| I approve of the field at south high school. And am proud to say that I have helped raise money and donated my own money to help build it.. I wonder if a lot of the people that are against it think that the tax payer is on the hook for it.. Well I am under the understanding the through the family and friends of the young man, Taylar Young, whom the field is dedicated, over half the funds have been raised. That's very impressive. Let's also not forget that it these types of efforts and parks that make our youth inspired to be something bigger then dreams when they grow up.. Why would we not want such a beautiful field in our town? Philip Hughes | |
| Don Williams | 5/22/2012 9:15:56 AM |
| I oppose this case. The baseball field should be located at the MOA South Anchorage Baseball Park near C Street / Klatt Rd / Minnesota. The school is bordered on 3 sides by residential properties. The 45 acre school site did not even meet the ASD minimum requirements of 50 acres for a Hi School. The practice field has been changed from a field used by little leaguers and the general public all year long to a custom baseball field bordered by 8 foot fencing and locked at all times. No public access is allowed. If approved, there should be special conditions added as follows to mitigate negative impacts: 1) Field shall be open to public during the off season, 2) Used for baseball games only from 9 am to 9 pm, 3) No sound amplification (e.g. loud speakers) or lighting allowed, and 4) Parking signs added stating that parking is prohibited and subject to towing on Leyden Road within 200 yds of school site access at Akula Drive. The towing must be automatic upon the complaint called in by Leyden or Akula home owners and other neighbors. | |
| Carolyn Melms | 5/19/2012 6:24:30 PM |
| I am opposed to this facility being built in our quiet residential area. We were promised by ASD before the school was built that this type of NOISY sports stadium would not be constructed on this site. It is not appropriate and the neighbors object to this use. Spend your money to improve Mulcahy instead of destroying the peaceful quality of our neighborhood. | |
| Carolyn Melms | 5/19/2012 5:39:57 PM |
| Residents living near S High attending planning meetings prior to building the school were assured by ASD that fields for baseball and football would be for PRACTICE ONLY! This site, in the middle of a quiet residential area is not appropriate for leasing/renting to the public or other sports organizations for Noisy stadium competitions. The neighbors are very opposed to this use and have been promised that it would not happen. I am very opposed to any further development of these athletic fields. | |