CLIFTON PARK TO BUY LAND FOR BALL FIELDS.(CAPITAL REGION)

Byline: BART JONES Staff writer CLIFTON PARK Relief is on the way for Clifton Common.

The town plans to buy a 62-acre parcel on McElroy Road from the Clifton Park Elks Lodge and build six to eight softball fields, Supervisor Marvin LeRoy said Monday.

The new fields would ease crowding at the 75-acre Clifton Common, where hundreds of adults and children play softball, baseball, football and soccer. The new fields should be open by the spring of 1997, LeRoy said.

The town will pay a maximum of $90,000 for the property well under its market value, he said. The exact price is still being finalized.

The Elks property is probably worth a …