Additional area for parking at the Washington Soccer Complex will be available after action taken at the recent Washington City Council meeting.

The city council held a public hearing for a land exchange agreement with Dalhaze Development, which allows Dalhaze to construct a house at 1218 North Second Avenue for a payment of $5,000 to the city. In exchange, Dalhaze will sell approximately one acre of land next to the soccer complex to the city for $20,000. Mayor Jaron Rosien commented on the agreement, “We’ve discussed this at length. This is a public hearing for basically a land swap with an exchange of $5,000. That allows us to develop a property to have a house built on it and swap for a property that is by the soccer fields where parking is an issue, and people park along that road and it’s dangerous and this enables us to [it’s] a win win. While some things are not this happens to be a good swap.”

No comments were made during the public hearing and the city council approved the agreement. City Administrator Brent Hinson says the city plans to seed the acre parcel and have it be used as overflow parking for the soccer complex.