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Commission approves Barrel House baseball complex site plan with buffering and time limits on nightly activity
Summary
Rankin County planning staff presented a site-plan review for a multi-field baseball complex and the commission voted to approve the plan after discussing buffering, lighting orientation and limits on late-night events.
The planning commission approved a site-plan architectural review for the proposed Barrel House baseball complex along Highway 25. Staff described a facility that would include a full-size high school regulation field, three additional practice fields, a 15,000-square-foot indoor training facility and a proposed 5,000-square-foot pitching lab and strength-conditioning building.
Staff said the developer revised plans to reduce impacts on adjacent residential properties by orienting lighting toward the fields, preserving vegetative buffering along lot lines, and avoiding late-night jamborees; one commissioner asked that typical hours end by about 9:30 p.m. After discussion staff asked the commission to authorize proceeding with planning and permitting and the board voted to approve the site plan by motion.
The approval was framed as a site-plan action not requiring a public hearing; staff noted the next steps are permitting and construction reviews and asked that conditions related to buffering, lighting and limits on event hours be enforced through the permitting process.
