Nugget Fields

Nugget Fields is located just off of Pole Line Road in East Davis, next to Sandy Motley Park. It is owned by the Davis Joint Unified School District and managed by the Davis Sports Foundation.

The fields are technically private and can only be used with permission. Of course, no one is going to care if you use them when there is nothing going on.

As part of the now defunct Covell Village proposal, the Fields would have been purchased by the Covell Village Partners from DJUSD for $4 million and developed for community use. In exchange, the school district would have received 10 acres of land within Covell Village (source). The lease between the Davis Sports Foundation (DSF) and the school district (DJUSD) was set to expire in the spring of 2006, and because of this, some stated that it is "unclear what may happen to the fields if Measure X does not succeed." However, according to Councilmember Stan Forbes, it would not be politically possible for the school district to sell the fields — all school board members who approved such a sale would lose their next election.

As of 3/4/07, the DJUSD has officially convened an advisory committee to discuss the future of the site.

In April, following the recommendation of the 7/11 committee, the DJUSD school board declared the site surplus, and is currently soliciting neighborhood input on potential future uses of the site. The next public meeting is Tuesday, May 6th, at 7pm in the Birch Run Elementary multipurpose room.

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2006-07-12 08:06:23   The lease with DSF has been extended until November 2006. In spite of what FORMER councilmember Forbes says, the school district is moving ahead with plans to sell the property (it is zoned for multi-residential). The school has announced that they plan on having the site developer build replacement fields in the "extra" school property behind Harper Jr. High, although the details of that are not yet clear (and there are a number of tricky problems with developing at that site). —CharlesRussell

2006-11-27 21:29:33   In November 2007 the school board approved another extension to the lease, through November 2007. They still have plans to dispose of the property, but those plans are not well defined at this time. —CharlesRussell