Car washes, controversial baseball stadium on agendas for two Medford meetings

Near-simultaneous meetings of the City of Medford Planning Commission and Medford City Council on Thursday will include discussions of car washes, a controversial minor league baseball stadium proposal and several other local development projects. City Council Thursday night’s City Council meeting, beginning at 6 p.m. in the Prescott Room of the Medford Police Station, 219 S. Ivy St., will center around discussion of a proposed stadium that, if built, would serve as home to the Eugene Emeralds. Sites at downtown Medford’s Hawthorne Park and at Harry & David Field, home to the Medford Rogues summer wood bat league team, are being considered. In an increasingly contentious topic in recent months, a group of protesters assembled outside a Medford Urban Renewal Agency meeting on Monday night to oppose the project being sited at Hawthorne Park.

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