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Commissioners weigh field-use limits after high-school night scheduling strains youth access
Summary
Park and Recreation commissioners discussed updating the field-use manual to clarify appeals, user priorities and limits on varsity teams using fields late at night, amid concerns that high-school scheduling is reducing youth access to fields.
Stacy Mulroy, director of Park and Recreation, told the commission that the department is reviewing the field-user manual to clarify the appeals timeline, priorities among user groups and limits on varsity teams that play late in the evening. Commissioners said the existing policy — which limits varsity teams to three nights per season at lights — is not well known and may not reflect current demand.
Commissioners and staff described frequent peak-period congestion at multi-field complexes and said the design team…
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