PHASE II OF PARK TO START; SEPTEMBER '99 TARGET FOR PELONA VISTA FIELDS.

Byline: Jim Skeen Daily News Staff Writer

The city is ready to add the second phase of Pelona Vista Park, a $4.6 million effort that will add four more fields to the soccer complex.

The City Council approved a $2.3 million contract for clearing, grading, storm-drain piping and structures, underground electrical and irrigation work, and field hydroseeding and landscaping. The plan is to fence off the area to allow hydroseeding a year to mature prior to being used.

``We hope to be online for September 1999,'' said Leon Swain, Palmdale's deputy director of public works.

The second phase will include four large multiuse, lighted fields, an open field, a tot lot, two picnic areas, restrooms and 460 parking spaces on the north side of the park.

The phase will also include a 427-space Park and Ride lot that will go in at the southeast corner of Tierra Subida Avenue and Rayburn Street.

The first phase of Pelona Vista opened Sept. 6. That phase included five lighted soccer fields, restrooms, a parking lot, a multiuse trail, an information center, a maintenance building and an office.

Built close to hillsides, the complex is shaped to maintain storm water flow around the facility and direct it into a dam that will be built as the project is completed.