University Park’s Planning and Zoning Commission gave the green light to potential upgrades around the Scotland Yard baseball field during an April 28 meeting.
The University Park City Council will also have to approve the plans before they move forward.
Potential renovations of the field at 7015 Westchester Drive, which is the home of the Scots baseball team, include: adjustments to the dimensions of the playing surface, moving the bull pens, replacing the artificial turf, replacing parts of the existing netting along the first and third base lines to extend the netting from 50 feet to 60 feet above the playing surface, moving the free-standing bleachers to along the first and third base lines, adding a single-user restroom building along the first base line, changing the landscaping along Douglas Avenue to a different shrub and removing the landscaping requirements along Lovers Lane, as well as renovating the interior of the existing bathrooms along the third base line.
“The currently proposed renovations are designed to modify the field to support future work at Scotland Yard that could include a new main entry, new grandstands and press box, new concessions, and new restroom facilities,” city staff noted in a report.
Resident Thomas Russell during the meeting called for continuing the landscaping along Lovers Lane.
“We’ve changed a lot of the spacing around the field, but I feel strongly we need to continue to try to landscape along Lovers, with appropriately sized foliage,” Russell said.
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