PARKS & RECREATION
O cials working to break ground on new Bay Colony Park by 2024
PARK PLANS The design of Bay Colony Park is still underway.
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Fields
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Drop-o point
Drop-o access road
2.5K trail
Primary sidewalk
Secondary sidewalk
BY JAKE MAGEE
spaces as the Chester L. Davis Sportsplex, League City’s other athletic facility, Coleman said. The over ow lot is an add alternate, meaning League City City Council may choose to nix it when approving the nal design, he said. The plan includes 10 such add alternates. After the city receives a construction bid for the project, City Council may choose to keep some and remove others due to cost, which was estimated a year ago at $38 million, Parks Director Chien Wei said. The park also would include a pedestrian walk that crosses the vehicle loop at only one spot. The path would allow visitors to walk from eld to eld and would also connect to a playground, an open lawn and other points of interest, Coleman said. TBG Partners is limited when it comes to park design. The 109-acre plot where Bay Colony Park will be built includes a pipeline, right of way for the future site of the Grand Park- way, wetlands and other challenges that limit design, Coleman said. Due to these restraints, TBG Partners proposed building the pedestrian walk along the pipeline because no vertical structures can be built there, he said. Additionally, TBG Partners worked with city o cials to secure a tie-in to Calder Road, which would allow vehicles to enter the park without having to rst enter Ervin Street. The park project will go to bid in the latter half of 2023 and will break ground in 2024.
While it will be a couple years before construction begins on Bay Colony Park, the project is still top of mind for League City o cials. During an Aug. 30 meeting, Blake Coleman with TBG Partners, the consultant designing the park, showed updated schematics for the park to the 4B board, a group of residents respon- sible for allocating sales tax revenue to amateur athletic facilities. “A lot has gone on behind the scenes in regards to di erent parts of the plan moving forward,” Coleman said. According to the schematics, Bay Colony Park, which will be located west of Calder Road and south of Ervin Street, would feature ve baseball elds and four softball elds, which is a response to the ongoing problem the city has faced in which families have noted there are too few such elds in the city. The park would also have soc- cer elds, pickleball courts, concession stands, a pavilion and playgrounds. The park would include a perimeter loop for cars to drive around the ve baseball elds and drop o players. The drop-o points would have shoul- ders for vehicles to move o the main loop and not slow down tra c. The loop would be adjacent to two parking areas in the middle of the park for families spending the day at the park, Coleman said. Additionally, there would be an over ow parking lot on the east side of the park for particularly busy days. In total, the park would have about the same number of parking
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Bay Colony Park will feature ve baseball elds, four softball elds and other sports facilities, such as soccer elds and pickleball courts. The park will tie into Calder Road so motorists on Calder can access the park directly. The park could include a loop around the baseball elds for dropping o players or reaching parking spots.
The pedestrian walk would allow visitors to walk from the south part of the park to the baseball and softball elds to the north. Visitors may be able to park at the main parking lot, near the loop or in the over ow lot to the east.
SOURCES: CITY OF LEAGUE CITY, TBG PARTNERS COMMUNITY IMPACT NEWSPAPER
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