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applicable standards for the latter appear to be the best guideline for sizing <br /> restroom facilities. That suggests 1 fixture per 50 people. At a two field <br /> facility where two games are in progress, the number of people for a Kidsports <br /> game (15 players and 15 parents per team) would yield about 120 people. <br /> 11. Lighting two fields would allow 4 more teams (about 60 people) to play <br /> per time slot. <br /> 12. Due to daily work and school schedules, players necessarily are limited <br /> to not starting play until late afternoon or early evening. Because youth <br /> players can start earlier and have earlier cut -off times, adult players tend <br /> to fill later time slots. An increase in the number of fields for daylight <br /> play would reduce the number of night time slots needed. <br /> 13. An increase in fields for the purpose of minimizing night play would <br /> increase irrigation and turf maintenance costs. <br /> 14. Annual irrigation, mowing and fertilizing costs are running about $2500 <br /> per acre, or $7500 per two field complex (such as Graham Field). Due to <br /> climatic variations, this cost can fluctuate. <br /> 15. Costs to operate a restroom are approximately $9000.00 per year, or $24.65 <br /> per day. <br /> 16. Lighting costs for Graham Field (FY93) was $5038, and for Shasta Ballfield <br /> $3540. Graham is higher due to soccer and football programs that occur there <br /> in the fall, which do not occur at Shasta. Shasta has a third lighted <br /> softball field. <br /> 17. The cost of a restroom /concession /storage building such as exists at Ascot <br /> Park is estimated at $85,000, engineering costs not included. <br /> 18. A Lane County appraiser in the Department of Assessment and Taxation <br /> stated on 10/15/93 that neither he nor others on their staff had been aware of <br /> any pattern of reduced values of residential property that back up to lighted <br /> ballfields. He acknowledged that there was a pattern in other areas that, for <br /> example, back up to Beltline Road. <br /> 19. Soils in the Willakenzie area drain better and require less attention to <br /> drainage problems. Soils in the south and west Eugene areas can be made just <br /> as playable as those in Willakenzie by adding a "Cambridge Drainage System" at <br /> a cost of about $30,000 per acre, or an additional $120,000 for a double <br /> softball field that would accommodate two soccer fields similar to the layout <br /> at Ascot that is proposed for lighting. <br /> 20. Building new lighted softball fields with seating, backstops and fencing, <br /> but no restrooms or parking areas, when constructed in pairs or more, are <br /> currently estimated to cost about $172,600 each. With an engineering cost <br /> factor of $22,100 (13%) the total comes to about $185,000 without the <br /> Cambridge drainage system, and about $235,000 with it. <br /> 2 <br />