A proposed paintball and airsoft sports park on Veterans Memorial Parkway has received business license approval from the Truesdale Board of Aldermen. The board also approved the first of several proposed home improvement services to be located on the same property.

Board members granted the approvals with a 4-0 vote at their Feb. 23 public meeting. Business proprietor Dustin Loeffler also presented preliminary engineering plans for the future “Good Game Sports Park” and other commercial developments that would be located on about 30 acres east of South Spoede Lane.

Loeffler said that after feedback From Truesdale’s public works director and a public town hall meeting in January, engineers used comments about nearby water drainage issues to design a robust water runoff plan on the property. He said that would hopefully include reducing some issues in the adjacent Heritage Hills subdivision.

“We’ve tried to meet house-by-house to integrate that feedback and take as much of that water as we could. Unfortunately we can’t take all the water because some of it is a grading issue in their yards, but we took as much of it as we could,” Loeffler said. “We put our heart and soul in this (engineering) plan. That town hall ... gave us so much good feedback.”

Loeffler is proposing a recreational facility with more than a dozen fields decorated with themes based on popular video games, sci-fi and superhero movies. A retail store on the property would also sell and rent paintball, airsoft, laser tag and/or nerf equipment.

During a Jan. 31 town hall meeting, nearby residents were relatively accepting of the project, but said they had concerns about their existing drainage issues worsening, and also worried over potential disturbances from the facility.

In addition to addressing the drainage concerns, Loeffler said he plans not to have any lighting on the outdoor fields, and that he will plant additional tree cover around the edge of the park to buffer it from the neighborhood.

Paintball and softball events at the park will mostly be held only on weekends during the daytime, with the main exception being limited mid-week events during the summer, Loeffler said.

Pool installer approved

Recreational fields aren’t the only commercial use that Loeffler has planned for the 30 acres in Truesdale. According to plans submitted by Loeffler, the entrepreneur also has future intentions for a series of home improvement and trade service offices that would all share a parking lot with the Good Game park. The first of those businesses, a pool installation service, was approved by the board of aldermen on Feb. 23.

The pool installation service would be inside the same building as the paintball/airsoft retail store, according to proposed plans for the park. Loeffler said the business will offer installation of in-ground pools, splash pads and hot tubs. Maintenance and cleaning service will also be offered.