The applicant for a controversial proposal to expand the baseball facility at Veira Park has officially shifted its focus to a new site, adjacent to the Oak Bluffs wastewater plant, which might be expanded into a town-wide recreational facility with a playground and basketball courts as well as a pair of baseball diamonds.

Vineyard Little League already has received approval from the Oak Bluffs community preservation committee to shift $200,000 in community preservation act funds, formerly approved for the expansion of the ball park at Veira Park, to the town-owned site commonly called the Leonardo property off Pennsylvania avenue.

Oak Bluffs selectmen this week signed off on a 12-article special town meeting warrant that includes an article asking if voters wish to rescind a vote from last year’s annual town meeting to allocate the $200,000 in community preservation funds for the Veira Park baseball fields. The same article asks if voters want to reallocate those same funds for improvements to the Leonardo Property.

At their regular meeting on Tuesday, selectmen agreed with little discussion to place the article on the special town meeting warrant.

Vineyard Little League this week also submitted plans to the town zoning offices showing the expanded recreation facility on a 4.4-acre site lot off Pennsylvania avenue, surrounded by several proposed roads called Byron avenue, Fairmount avenue and Forest avenue.

The plans show a parking lot with 78 parking spaces, two baseball and softball diamonds with fencing and dugouts, a playground play area and a pair of fenced-in basketball courts.

Several town officials and neighbors of Veira Park this week said the Leonardo site is better suited to an expanded recreational facility because it has more space and available parking. The previous proposal to expand Veira Park drew criticism from some neighbors who felt a second baseball diamond would create problems with traffic, noise and parking.

In October, a group of Oak Bluffs residents filed a lawsuit against the town to block the release of the community preservation funds for the Veira Park expansion project. That complaint followed a decision by a superior court judge barring the city of Newton from using community preservation money to renovate two parks in that town.

Selectmen have since referred the Veira Park project to the Martha’s Vineyard Commission for review as a development of regional impact.

The town purchased the Leonardo property at a special town meeting last March. Voters agreed to appropriate $1.1 million to purchase three lots off Pennsylvania avenue for the possible future expansion of the wastewater plant. Town wastewater superintendent Joe Alosso said this week that a portion of the property could be used for possible expansions of the plant while another portion could be used for a recreational facility.

Residents will vote on the proposal to shift the community preservation funds to the Leonardo property at the Oak Bluffs special town meeting which immediately precedes the annual town meeting on April 8.