DAPHNE, Ala. — The master plan of a 122-acre sports complex — to be located a half-mile east of North Main Street and Park Drive — received majority approval at Thursday’s Daphne Planning Commission meeting, though the site plan was tabled.

The park will hold basketball and volleyball courts, as well as baseball, softball and T-ball fields, according to Brandon Adams, the project’s landscape architect.

“We’ll also have one miracle field. It’s similar to a T-ball field but with an artificial surface for the handicapped,” he said. “We’ll have an official-sized swimming pool where you can hold swim meets.”

Adams said he believed there would be adequate parking at the complex.

“There will be 36 to 40 (spaces) per field, which is the national standard,” he said.

“You’d have enough parking if all the buildings were in use at the same time.”

Planning Commissioner Don Terry asked what could be done when balls hit car windshields, citing parking’s proximity to the softball fields.

Adams recommended placing a tall net between the field and the parking lot or, a more environmentally friendly approach: “Maybe plant some evergreen trees to stop the foul balls,” he said.

Commissioner Victoria Phelps reiterated a concern for trails to connect the near-by subdivisions to the park, as she mentioned at the work session on March 19.

City Planning Director Bill Eady pointed out that new subdivisions were planned west of the park, and recommended trails at the west and south sides.

Adams agreed that further details should be hashed out.

“This is just the general master plan,” he said. “As we go through the different phases, we’ll study the areas in more detail. Some things might change here and there, but this is the general plan.”

In other business, a site plan for The Shoppes of Daphne, a nearly one-acre lot northeast of U.S. Highway 98 and Randall Avenue, received majority approval.