SPRING HILL – Soccer fans will be pleased to hear that Anderson Snow Park will undergo a $200,000 improvement project, aimed at replacing sod and landscaping on four of the park’s six soccer fields.
According to County Officials, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection provided two $50,000 grants towards improvements; which will be matched by funding approved by the Hernando County Board of County Commissioners. Original estimates for the project reached $250,000.
The 100-acre Anderson Snow Park, located at 1360 Anderson Snow Road, is a multi-functional sports complex for baseball and soccer. It hosts recreational soccer, competitive soccer, soccer for students with special needs and adult soccer for a total of 1,400 annual participants. The park has six soccer fields and six ball fields, picnic shelters, pavilions, two restrooms, concession buildings, press box, playground, tot lot. There is also easy access to the Suncoast Bike Trail; which parallels the Suncoast Parkway.
County Administrator Leonard Sossamon says “We value our partnership with First Hernando Youth Soccer Club and want to provide well-maintained fields for all of our players.” Sossamon further states, “Improving these fields will help bring more soccer tournaments to the sports complex.”
The project is due to start in April and expected be completed by June 2016.
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This is definitely a step in the right direction, but Hernando County officials need to designate some money to making a nice, modern community center with an indoor basketball court, gym, game center, etc. All of the teens in this county have nothing to do all day, which is why a lot of teens resort to drugs and crime…
What about the rest, Delta Woods looks like a trash bin, as do many of the rest.
Budget, think you should spend some of that money teaching the county how to turn water off never seen such tic turds. HAVE A GREAT DAY…..
What about the baseball fields? Soccer fields are constantly getting work done to them baseball fields not so much if anything.
I like baseball!! I really do, great sport.
What about the rest of the park? The play area is in bad shape. Canopies were never replaced when they broke 2 years ago, so there is minimal shade now. The sand is a mess and needs replacing with something “cleaner”. The whole park needs an update.
What about Dixie and softball who have over 1500 kids a year. They haven’t done crap for them.
Waste of money. Go look at the football field behind the baseball field at Veterans. They tore it all up re did it all and laid new sod and looks like SHIT ! Weeds, bare spots. Pitiful. HCRD has no one that knows what they are doing in any aspects of running this stuff.
I guess they don’t know there are also softball fields and what about doing work to the baseball and softball fields as well
Delta woods park is a dump. If they were given a trash bin someone would probably steal it! I refuse to bring my son there.. Nothing but drug dealers and little thugs that hang out there. Anderson snow is the only park worth sinking money into. Different area.. Different type of people.
Why don’t people volunteer a little more time and stop complaining? Why does the county put such ridiculous constraints on the public? A million dollar bond plus fees to show a movie or have a art show in a park?
Excellence in schools and parks = a strong, desirable community. If anyone cares about home values in this county, they’ll begin supporting the schools and parks/rec. I’ve never heard a complaint that a park was too nice or a school was too good. I’d love to see my tax dollars going toward something that will improve our home values.
How about spending the money on sidewalks and crosswalks so people won’t get killed trying to walk to these so called parka..
Parks…
Basket ball courts please