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Residents urge City of Maitland to limit pickleball court bookings after repeated monopolization complaints
Summary
Residents told the City Council on Feb. 24 that a small number of players are reserving multiple courts in advance and leaving others empty, and asked staff to consider booking limits or same‑day release rules so more players can access courts.
Pete Lierda, a Maitland resident, told the City Council at the Feb. 24 meeting that the city’s pickleball reservation system has been “a de facto open play” that allows a small group to monopolize courts. “If you’re not first in line to reserve a court, basically, a small group of people are monopolizing all of the courts, by booking all of them,” Lierda said.
Lierda described arriving early to the Cornwall courts to try to reserve a court and finding groups booking multiple courts for players who later did not show. “They just book all the courts, and then see who will play and then people will show up,” he said. He…
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