The future of Telus Field will be part of a City Council discussion Tuesday as councillors plan for the redevelopment of the Rossdale neighbourhood.

A report set to go before council outlines the options for the redevelopment. The presentation says there are a number of ongoing factors that need to be dealt with before residential units are created to house 2,000 people.

Plans to redevelop the area have been in the works since 2011 and would also include stores and better access to the river valley. The report finds the current zoning would make the plans financially unachievable.

“We’ve got a lot of land development projects in the city. Obviously we want them to not cost the city money when we’re all said and done so we need to take a look at the Rossdale report,” Mayor Don Iveson said Thursday.

“Ultimately we have a vision for the Rossdale report but it’s got to be feasible.”

City staff suggest more space is needed. Some proposals include taking up the parking currently used by Telus Field. Other possibilities include cutting the size of the park to reduce costs or demolishing the building altogether.

While the discussion hasn’t even happened yet, the prospect already has some Edmontonians on edge.

“The idea of wrecking that…how’s that going to make the river valley any nicer? It’s a beautiful place to go,” said Al Coates, the former play-by-play announcer for the Edmonton Trappers who once played at the field.

The Mayor said that worry is preemptive though.

“Council has not at all had a chance to debate what might happen with Telus Field over time,” Mayor Iveson told CTV News. “I think we knew when we started to think about developing the Rossdale flats area there into something better than parking lots for the baseball stadium that we might eventually have to ask ourselves the question ‘is the baseball stadium viable for the long term?’ And so I think we’re going to start looking at that question but absolutely no decisions have been made.”

The report goes before a special meeting of City Council Tuesday though no firm decision on the future of the field is expected at that time.

With files from Dan Grummett