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Residents urge council to drop Alimagnet Park pickleball proposal over environmental and engagement concerns
Summary
Three Burnsville residents told the council they support more pickleball courts generally but urged the city not to place a high-use complex at Alimagnet Park, citing lake runoff, noise, light pollution, and failures of public engagement and cost transparency.
Several Burnsville residents used the public-comment period to ask the City Council to reconsider placing a proposed pickleball complex at Alimagnet Park, saying the site choice threatens the lake ecosystem and was advanced without comprehensive public engagement or comparative cost data.
Ed Sturm, a 17-year Burnsville resident and president of the Lake Association and the Alimagnet Eco Advocates, said the group has sought data and documentation for months and "found no data to support the decision to choose Almagnet Park as the location for a pickleball complex." Sturm said the city’s materials show only anecdotal evidence of public demand for pickleball at that site and that the proposed hard surfaces and added parking would increase runoff into a lake the speaker said has been listed as impaired for more than 20 years.
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