Open houses to field renovation concerns

A set of plans to rearrange and renovate fields at four Costa Mesa schools will be put before community members at two open houses scheduled for this week.

The city is making its way through a process to design plans for new soccer and baseball fields at TeWinkle Middle School, California Elementary School, Davis Elementary School and Costa Mesa High School.

Preliminary designs have been drawn. Wednesday night’s meeting at TeWinkle Middle School and Thursday night’s meeting at Costa Mesa High School will be residents’ first chance to suggest their ideas. Both meetings will start at 6 p.m.

Once the plans are finalized, they will go to the City Council for final approval. The council will then decide whether they can make room in a coming year’s budget for the improvements. No official cost analysis has been done, but city staffers estimate that implementing all of the plan’s recommendations will be in the $1-million range.

— Alan Blank