Basketball Court OKd Over Opposition
Despite neighborhood opposition to adding a basketball court at Costeau Park, the City Council has included the facility as part of a package of park improvements.
Some residents and Councilwoman Melody Carruth expressed concerns that a court would draw crowds from outside the neighborhood and create noise problems.
“This park was designed for the neighborhood,” Carruth said. “It doesn’t have the parking and other infrastructure for large groups of people.”
But a council majority decided that the court was needed.
“The basketball court will benefit the neighborhood and the city as a whole,” Mayor Randal J. Bressette said.
The council supported about $225,000 in improvements that will include landscaping, fences, a baseball backstop, picnic tables and a water fountain.
Renovation of Costeau Park, at Costeau Road and Alicia Parkway, is part of a campaign by Laguna Hills since its incorporation in 1991 to improve its recreation facilities.
“We have gone from park to park to determine what each one needs,” Bressette said, and “have rehabilitated several.”
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