Council Approves $7,340,000.00 City Park

With a total of 7,979 children between the age of 5-14 that works out to $920.00 each. Or $428.00 for every household in Glendora.

(GLENDORA, Calif.) - The Glendora City Council last night heeded the advice of a number of local sports groups and unanimously approved a robust $7.34-million plan for expanding the Louie Pompei Sports Park into a community sports mega-center, while authorizing construction drawings for that effort.

The Council took the action after several weeks of reviewing options for reducing some of proposed amenities and expansion costs at the 18-acre sports park. The facility currently has two lighted seasonal soccer fields, which also serve as three seasonal softball diamonds. Pompei Park serves about 128 Glendora Youth Soccer teams and 1,600 players, as well as accommodates youth and adult baseball.

The expansion will add: four softball/baseball fields, three overlay (overlaying the baseball outfields) soccer/football fields, a full-time, 180-foot-by-300-foot soccer field, a snack bar, parking for 290 cars, two restrooms, picnic tables, a plaza area, a “tot lot” play area for toddlers, two batting cages and stadium seating for 350 sports fans.

“In expanding Pompei, we had one chance to ‘do it right,’” said Mayor Cliff Hamlow. “We could have chosen a ‘Rolls Royce’ or a ‘Chevy’ expansion plan. We think we chose a plan somewhere in the middle – a plan that is economically well-thought out and one that will best serve our community’s sports needs for years to come.”

The mayor commended Community Services Director Jim Henderson for guiding the project for more than 10 years. Henderson, in turn, thanked the Council for its initiative and courage. “I’m just so pleased for our community,” Henderson said. “This (expansion) will be a great asset to youth and adult sports and to our community.”

Once the Pompei expansion construction drawings have been approved by city staff and the Council (which could be completed by December), construction work on the nine- to 12-month build-out could start around the first of the year (2005).

In other action, the Council prioritized several of the city’s pending and proposed development projects. The prioritized developments are, in order: Pompei Park, the Diamond Ridge/Kaiser Property, the Vermont Downtown Village mixed-use project, the Route 66 Specific Plan and gateway expansion, the San Jose site and the South Hills.

The Council voted to encumber funds specifically for some of these projects. It set aside $7.34 million for Pompei Park, $5.8 million for Route 66, $3 million for Diamond Ridge/Kaiser and ...

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