KIRKSVILLE, MO. -- Many new additions will be added to the North Park Complex in Kirksville.

At Monday evening's city council meeting, the master plan for the park was presented and approved.

The plan which is 18 months in the making, will include two regulation soccer fields to serve as "green space", ponds for irrigation, restrooms at two ends of the park, a skate park, tennis courts, and a multi-use recreational facility for tennis, golf, and indoor soccer.

“We are real excited about the project.  A lot of it's doable in-house.  I think the soccer fields are something that we can accomplish fairly quickly, and the rest of it is long-range planning that the community has identified as something that will be a benefit for 25, 30 years to come,” says Kirksville Community Services Director Steve Bell.

North Park is a total of 62 acres. We asked how the city plans to use all of that land.

“62 acres sounds like a lot.  But when you're developing those kinds of athletic fields it's not really that much.  You know a regulation soccer field when you put the slope and everything else, its three acres.  So, two of them is six acres.  So you really start to bite into that,” says Bell.

Bell says there was such a need for such a facility and so much land, so officials decided to do something with the complex.

The project will be one of Bell's last as community services director.  He is resigning at the end of the month.

Bell says North Park and Rotary Park were two projects he is proud to have been a part of while in Kirksville.