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Broadway Field plan

This week’s top stories present a major forward for the Seaside School District as it submits plans for the new softball field at Broadway Park. The Seaside School District submitted an application for a conditional use to expand the Broadway Park softball field that will include an additional parking area north of the Sunset Recreation Center, additional seating for spectators, fencing and backstop, as well as adding an announcer booth.

The proposal, along with a request for a lot line adjustment from the park district, will go before the Planning Commission at its April 4 meeting.

Missing from the plans will be a plan to remodel locker rooms in the Sunset Recreation Center, said school district project manager Brian Hardebeck. Read more here.

It’s all in the blocks

Seaside’s Mary Blake has decades of history in Seaside as a lifelong fitness advocate. She shares her passion for aquatics with Logan Dennis, captain of the Seaside High School swim team and a Seaside lifeguard. They are dedicated to upgrading the diving blocks at the Sunset Pool, installed 35 years ago when Blake was the executive director of the Sunset Empire Park and Recreation District.

The blocks bring the pool to a higher competitive level, they say, bringing a “level playing field” for swimmers. Find the story here. 

Overnight campers in Gearhart

Area cities are all facing the same issues, and Gearhart is no different. Seven overnight campers are parked along Glenn Avenue, bringing the concerns of the homeless to the city. After an incident of vandalism at the city’s restrooms by the park, officials are reassessing their policies and ways to manage increasingly big-city issues within city borders.

“The real issue here is that we need a camp before we can move people,” City Administrator Chad Sweet says in an interview. “We need a camp within our jurisdiction. We don’t have the land or the means to run something like that.”

Find out what the city’s options are here.

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