CROWN POINT | Schneider Corp.'s tweaks to designs for the city's sportsplex properties have driven the price tag up from $13 million to $16 million.

The Indianapolis-based engineering firm presented the changes to the Crown Point Plan Commission on Monday night as the commission considered rezoning Breyfogle Farm from industrial to conservation.

It approved the rezone in a 5-2 vote. Commissioners John Marshall and Paul Keller voted against the motion.

Schneider Corp. secured a $19,850 contract with the city in November to complete a master plan for the current North Street sportsplex and Breyfogle Farm off Old Merrillville Road.

The first conceptual drawings, presented to the Youth Sports Commission last week, lumped everything but soccer fields onto North Street.

Schneider Corp. landscape architect Nola Albrecht said the firm responded to sports organizations' comments and expanded the recreation center since last week's meeting. The recreation center will house at least three basketball courts and the parks offices after the department's current building is demolished.

The revised plan also added a spot for an ice skating rink, slotted two Babe Ruth baseball fields and set aside 4 acres for the Crown Point Swim Club to build its aquatic center.

The Crown Point Swim Club, Little League and Babe Ruth were not represented in Schneider Corp.'s first drawings.

The firm also revamped the design for Breyfogle Farm.

Originally, about 16 acres at the corner of Indiana Avenue and Summit Street were set aside to be resold as commercial land to help pay for some of the proposed improvements. That was reduced to 8 to 10 acres, Albrecht said.

Albrecht estimated it would cost about $12.2 million to make all of the North Street improvements and another $2.7 million to complete Breyfogle Farm. The plans are very preliminary, she said.