Lehighton Area School District has a little more work to do before ground can be broken on its new football stadium.

Members of the Carbon County Planning Commission voted to recommend conditional plan rejection for the plan on Tuesday.Plans for the estimated $5 million project call for relocating the stadium from its current location to the grounds of the high school by replacing the athletic grass field with an artificial turf field inside the existing track; constructing a visitor and home grandstand, press box, 62-foot by 260-foot field house, 42-foot by 74-foot restroom/maintenance building, a 119-vehicle paved parking lot and a 100-vehicle grass overflow lot; and installing a new lighting system for the field and paved parking areas.In addition, the project calls for directing stormwater from the field and parking area into an underground storm trap detention system and discharging it into a proposed irrigation field south of Union Street, as well as relocating existing UGI gas mains and extending water and sewage mains to the proposed new buildings.Joe Hauser, supervisor of buildings and grounds at the school, and project manager Kevin Markell of Barry Isett & Associates answered questions before the vote.Markell said the school district has been working with Lehighton Borough, UGI, and the borough sewer and water authorities to meet all necessary requirements for the project."We're well on our way with all the different reviews that are required," he said.Ivan O. Meixell Jr., county planner, said there are a number of issues with the plans that need to be addressed before approval could be recommended.They included 22 areas that do not currently comply with Lehighton's subdivision and land development ordinances, including tract boundaries not shown; development agreements between the borough and school district need to be completed per requirements of SALDO; and approvals by the Lehighton water and sewer authorities, Carbon County Conservation District and Lehighton Power and Lehigh Department are needed.Markell said they will take the information from the county, as well as the borough's comments that they received last week, and begin working to make the corrections before resubmitting the plans for final approval.In other matters, the planning commission acted on the following subdivisions.• Barbara A. Barilla received plan approval for her proposed subdivision/lot line revision at 182 Sgt. Stanley Hoffman Blvd., Lehighton. The plans call for subdividing a lot to create two plots and then combining an adjoining lot with one of the subdivided lots.• Leonard Jr. and Barbara Gilliar received plan approval for a proposed lot line revision on Fawn Grove Drive, Hemlock Forest Section, Holiday Poconos, Kidder Township. Plans call for combining two lots to create a new .517-acre lot.• Melo Enterprises LLC and Pick-Me Realty LLC received conditional plan approval for a proposed subdivision at 338/340 Ochre St., Lehighton. Plans call for subdividing a .393-acre lot into three lots and then combining a fourth tax parcel with the newly created lot three to create a .107-acre lot.