Middle School, athletic field planned for Timberland

In 2003, the Beaverton School District (BSD) condemned and then purchased a 14-acre parcel in the middle of the former Teufel Nursery property for a future school site. This led to the Teufel family deciding to sell the entire property for development.

The site has been vacant as the Timberland housing development was built around it by Polygon Homes. In October, BSD posted a Request for Proposal for planning services for the site.

Maureen Wheeler, BSD Public Communication Officer, says, “The services would assist the District in determining the options for the site design, infrastructure improvements and massing of a middle school facility. Services include: land use planning, civil engineering, and architecture associated with developing conceptual site plans and building documents. The middle school site is within the City of Beaverton's jurisdiction. The approximate date for completing the planning services is March 31, 2011.”

Wheeler continues, “There are no immediate plans to build a school, and in fact it will take another capital bond measure (maybe 2015) to fund the construction. However, Tualatin Hills Park & Recreation District (THPRD) is interested in developing the field(s). With their current bond funds, they could develop the fields in the near future, and before a school is built. The school capacity and boundaries have not been developed at this point.”

Hal Bergsma, THPRD Director of Planning, confirms that the district wants to develop at least one field on the middle school site. “We would be using bond funds programmed for development of ten new youth athletic fields throughout the District. $5,000,000 was programmed for that purpose, or an average of $500,000 per site. These will be natural turf fields, with no lighting, and may be a soccer field or a baseball field, or a combination of both. Our first field project is at Meadow Waye Park in south Beaverton. That project is just about done. We also tentatively have youth fields programmed for five other park sites including Cedar Mill Park. The final decision for each site will be made after we conduct a master planning process following our community outreach process.

“We have four fields that have not yet been assigned to a specific site. We want to develop one unassigned field in each quadrant of the District. The field being discussed for the Timberland school site would be one of those four fields. After the school district has completed their master planning process for the Timberland site we will talk with them about an agreement to develop a field on the property consistent with the plan. The master plan and the field project would be subject to approval by the City of Beaverton.”

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