FREMONT — Neighbors of a newly proposed community park in Fremont worry that if city officials build it, cricket will come.

Preliminary blueprints for the 13-acre Palm Avenue Community Park show possible plans for a cricket field for youth along with green space, a playground, picnic tables, public restrooms and a parking lot. But a group of neighbors are concerned the sport – created in England involving a bat and ball and one of the most popular sports in the world – could pose dangers to passersbys, vehicles and homes.

“It just seems so negligent to us,” said Phil Leung, one of several neighborhood residents rallying against the proposed cricket field. “It’s just like ‘Field of Dreams.’ If you build it, people will come.”

Fremont Parks Planning and Design Manager Tara Bhuthimethe sai

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