The Bellaire City Council granted permits for the rebuilding of Bellaire High School and for allowing the relocation of the baseball field to the former Gordon Elementary/Mandarin Chinese school property.
Due to the limited space of the current property, it was quite a challenge to come up with a design that would work for everyone, including those that live adjacent to the school. The latest proposal included moving the baseball field to the Gordon Elementary/Mandarin Chinese school property in order to free up space to build the new school.
With a new design in place, the Council voted to adopt the following conditions for the current BHS site:
- (a) That the student enrollment at Bellaire High School shall not exceed 3,100 students, and the registrar’s office shall submit an enrollment affidavit at the beginning and end of each school year.
- (b) Houston Independent School District must install one lane, on HISD property, from South Rice Avenue into the parking garage on Maple Street, and include a hard median between such lanes and Maple Street.
- (c) No field lights or public address system shall be installed for the athletic field on the property.
- (d) Houston Independent School District must install all medians, striping, traffic signals, and signage as depicted in the proposal, subject to the approval of the City’s Traffic Engineer.
- (e) The use of temporary buildings shall be strictly prohibited.
They also adopted the following conditions for the new Baseball Field site:
- (a) No field lights or public address system shall be installed on the property.
- (b) The baseball facility shall be for the sole and exclusive use of Bellaire High School and not by other entities without prior consent of the City Council.
The new school design will include a parking garage that will help alleviate the long standing parking issues on streets surrounding the school.
To read more about the challeges that have faced the rebuilding of Bellaire High School read Mayor Friedberg’s Blog post here.
