SPOKANE-- Little League and the Glenrose Association have been butting heads over a proposed sports complex for a year.
KREM 2 News has been following this story since January. Now Glenrose neighbors are trying one last time to stop the project. Spokane’s Little League now has the permits it needs to build new sports fields southeast of 37th and Glenrose. The only thing standing in the way is the Glenrose community.
20 acres worth of softball, soccer, and football fields for Spokane’s Little League is the last thing Peter Ice and his neighbors want in their backyard. Ice says now that Little League has the permits it needs to break ground, the sports complex seems inevitable. But the association filed an appeal to those permits, as a last-ditch effort to stop the project. It asks the county to consider how noise, lighting, and traffic will impact the neighborhood, environment, and wildlife.The association accuses the county of not being through enough in its assessment of those issues.
Little League says it wants to address the concerns of the neighborhood, while creating a safe place for its members to play ball. Right now, the league is in good standing with the county. Brian Gosline from the Spokane Little League says they are in compliance with all the rules, and now it’s just a matter of raising the money to build. If the complex is built, the association would like a say in what the road looks like, to help handle potential traffic. That’s one consideration that could be decided by the county at a hearing next month. Little League doesn’t have a set time line on construction of the complex, it all depends on how quickly they can raise the funds to build it.
