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Consultant: Pflugerville faces large baseball and softball field deficits; commission backs staff to advance feasibility study
Summary
Park Hill told the Pflugerville Parks & Recreation Commission the city is roughly 11% short of field capacity and faces deficits of about 13 baseball and 14 softball fields (≈95 acres short today, growing to ~177 acres by 2035); commissioners voted to advance the feasibility study for planning, zoning and future bond consideration.
Chad Davis, a landscape architect from Park Hill, told the commission the firm conducted face-to-face outreach with local leagues and compared local demand to National Recreation and Park Association benchmarks. "So, yes, we absolutely did" public engagement, Davis said, listing youth and adult groups that participated.
The study found that Pflugerville—urrently lacks most city-run baseball and softball fields: Park Hill counted roughly one city softball field against an NRPA-recommended 15 and two city baseball diamonds against a similar recommendation. Davis presented those shortfalls…
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