Sunrise Manor advisory board approves design review for park expansion with three baseball fields

The Sunrise Manor Town Advisory Board on May 15 approved design review DR250302 for an expansion of the regional park on an 87.3-acre portion of a 207-acre parcel at the northeast corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Sahara Avenue in Sunrise Manor.

The board approved the proposal "per staff recommendation," the presiding official said, after a presentation from the project representative and brief public comment. The proposal covers a phase 2 layout that adds three baseball fields, parking and support facilities to an existing phase 1 park footprint that already includes soccer fields, pickleball courts, a dog park, native garden areas, turf areas and trails.

Justin Van Cleef, the project representative, described the plan during the public hearing. He said the proposal would add three baseball fields with fence distances of about 400 feet in center field and 350 feet in left and right fields; a continuation of the roadway with landscape and a center median; a centralized prefabricated restroom; two warm-up areas between the fields; roughly…