Planners eye 109-acre sports complex in Warren County

Plans for a 109-acre sports complex will be scrutinized Thursday in Warren County.

The Warren County Regional Planning Commission Executive Committee is scheduled to consider plans and standards for the facility that will be called the Warren County Sports Park at Union Village.

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Otterbein Senior Lifestyle Choices, owners of more than 1,400 acres in the planned area, has agreed to donate the land for the sports complex to be built within the development, provided a cost and tax sharing plan is worked out.

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The park is planned on land off Greentree Road and Ohio 741, on either side of Turtlecreek Twp. Park and across Ohio 741 from Warren County's Armco Park.

The committee is expected to review the plans and standards for the park, to include 12 multi-use fields, four baseball diamonds, two championship multi-sport fields, two championship baseball fields and two concession stand and restroom facilities.

The committee meets at 1 p.m. Thursday at the commissioners’ board room of the county administration building, 406 Justice Dr. in Lebanon.

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