Wilton has a near-term opportunity for a game-changing new facility at Allen’s Meadows! A state-of-the-art, multi-sport/activity organic turf field space, with lights and a seasonal bubble for year-round access! 

With THOUSANDS of participants (and growing) in our Wilton-based youth and high school sports and activities, and with increasing demand from adult and recreational users, Wilton is in desperate need of additional capacity for year-round play. We can change this now! By signing this petition you are signaling your support for this project to our Town leadership. For more information on this project you can read below or visit the WARF Website. 

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Recently, the State of Connecticut agreed to land-lease letter of intent terms expanding permitted uses at Wilton's Allen's Meadows park to include a turf field, lighting and a seasonal bubble, creating a generational opportunity.

The new facility has the potential to expand capacity of usable hours for play in Wilton by at least 3x relative to the existing grass field. This will create a year round asset for low-maintenance use by all and create new revenue opportunities for Wilton.  Based on conservative assumptions, the facility is expected to be economically self-sustaining. 

Wilton’s two turf fields (Fujitani Stadium and Lilly Field) primarily support the needs of Wilton High School’s teams but afford very little consistently available time for Wilton’s town-based youth recreational and competitive sports programming or broader community use.  This results in Wilton’s youth groups and residents having to overuse a limited number of grass fields or leave Wilton to find quality fields in other towns.  

The grass fields of Wilton are finite in number, diverse in size and difficult to maintain. They lack lighting for evening play in core seasons (especially challenging in daylight savings periods when daylight is short), are subjected to rough and unpredictable area weather that shortens seasons and suffer from dramatic overuse that compromises quality, safety, playability and increases maintenance costs for the Town. These grass fields are also closed all winter. 

An additional organic turf field with modern, targeted LED lighting plus a seasonal bubble would create the much needed capacity in all four seasons for every user group and resident. 

Wilton’s turf fields are built with best-in-class environmentally friendly materials including organic infill that maintains low temperatures and bonded artificial grass fibers. The field surfaces are precision engineered for user safety with shock absorbent subsurfaces.  Further, relative to existing natural grass, turf will eliminate significant water use required for irrigation of grass, eliminate seasonal chemical fertilizer treatments to maintain grass and dramatically reduce carbon emissions caused by weekly mowing of grass plus the excessive driving by Wilton families to out of town facilities, among numerous other net positive benefits.  

This petition is being shared by Wilton Athletic and Recreation Foundation (“WARF”), a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization led by Wilton volunteers seeking to turn your shared community vision for sports and recreation in Wilton, into a reality.  WARF is building and prioritizing a pipeline of opportunities to evaluate, analyze and accelerate in partnership with the community and the Town.  For more information, please visit the WARF Website.