News Details (Posted: February 1, 2007):

Spring sports get set to try synthetic turf at new Chino Hills Community Park

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Construction of the new Chino Hills Community Park is ahead of schedule and City officials are planning to allow spring season sports to begin practicing on the synthetic turf at the new park as early as February 5th. The park is located at 3280 Eucalyptus Avenue at Peyton Drive. A northbound left-turn lane has been installed on Peyton Drive at Eucalyptus to allow northbound motorists access to the park.

“We set an optimistic schedule to have the park built by March 31st and we are thrilled to be ahead of schedule,” said Mike Fleager, Community Services Director. “We have been working closely with our youth sports groups and we felt that allowing practices to start at the new park would significantly minimize confusion with schedules.”

Most of the work is complete at the park but a few finishing touches remain to be done. The park contractor will continue to work during the day while the park is off limits to the public. Then, every afternoon, the gates will open and league practices will be underway. The City Council directed staff to begin planning a grand opening event at the park on Saturday, February 17th. Initial plans call for the grand opening ceremony to begin at 11:00 a.m. and activities will continue until 4:00 p.m.

Source: chinohills.org