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Let the children of Laguna Hills play ball!

Let the children of Laguna Hills play ball!

Closed — 92 supporters Verified

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Rachelle S.
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Larry W.
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Shannon C.
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Raymond A.
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Started by Anonymous 19 years, 7 months ago
Little League Baseball is the largest organized youth sports program in the world. However, in Laguna Hills, the inability to use exisiting fields within the city limits has meant that many of our children do not have a field to play on. There are two fields at our beautiful Community Center. Unfortunatly, one of those fields is completely unavailable because it is used by an adult softball league and there are NO requirements that ANY of those adults be residents of Laguna Hills. Yet, it is the property of, and run by, the city of Laguna Hills for the residents. As a result, we currently have no fields to accommodate one of our communities most important assets - youth ages 13 - 17. The second field is the only City property capable of accommodating this advanced player group and is completely unavailable and insufficient in its\' present form. We ask that the City Council: 1. Approve and implement the Little Leauge field proposal and improvements, enabling multiuse of the second field to include baseball for Laguna Hills resident players ages 13-17 2. Pioritize field use to give preference to groups that are solely comprised of Laguna Hills residents over non-residents for city facilities Little League provides our children with an opportunity to develop character, courage, loyalty, sportsmanship, fair play and teamwork which they can use later in life to become good citizens. Let\'s allow our children the opportunity to play here in our city.

Updates

June 21, 2007

The momentum behind this initiative clearly demonstrates that our community values accessible sports facilities for local youth. It is encouraging to see this level of engagement regarding the future of our playing fields.

6 Comments

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Rebecca Doyle
19 years ago Featured

I moved here for the schools and sports programs and this is so disappointing to see. My boys deserve a place to play ball in their own city.

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Sarah Saunders
19 years ago Featured

It is honestly ridiculous that we cant use our own fields. Let the kids play!

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Jen Hill
19 years ago Featured

This is our community center not a place for random adults to hog the space. Fix the field so the high schoolers can actually use it local.

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Tom Wheeler
19 years ago Featured

Total joke that the residents lose out. Keep the fields for us!!

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Dave Fox
19 years ago Featured

The city council needs to wake up and start putting the kids first. Enough with these adult leagues taking priority over the youth of laguna hills.

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Mike Harvey
19 years ago Featured

My son has to travel way to far just to practice. Why are we letting people from out of town take our fields?