Over the last couple months the City has been getting a lot of requests from adult sports groups requesting sports fields to play on. Sea Cloud Park was designed for youth sports and is by permit only. Sea Cloud Park is known through the Peninsula as being one of the best groomed fields around.
The reason our parks are in such great shape is we maintain them properly. Take the soccer fields at Sea Cloud Park, they are maintained year round with a program that allows time for the fields to grow grass and this helps keep the fields in great shape. The fields are used and permitted for AYSO and PYSC with 1,600+ youth playing on them.
Our Parks and Recreation Department has a history of maintaining our parks with a program that allows the maximum use without allowing them to be destroyed. This is a fine balance between just enough use and the correct amount of time of the fields being closed. It is very important for us to keep these fields healthy for use by our youth. When adults play, they are a lot harder on the fields than kids.
Our City Council has worked hard in setting up rules that will protect our parks from being overused. In the next couple of months we are going to see even more restrictive rules. We are looking at making any group larger than 10 to be permitted on our sports field. This is one way we can control the use of our fields. These rules are not made to keep dad and son from playing catch, but to stop the organized groups coming in and overusing our City fields.
You may reach me via email rcox@fostercity.org.
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