Planning commission approves conversion of tennis courts to 22 pickleball courts at TTC Newporter after traffic and noise review

The Newport Beach Planning Commission on Jan. 9 voted unanimously to approve a conditional use permit and coastal development permit allowing the conversion of six tennis courts at the TTC Newporter site into 22 pickleball courts, and authorized related parking adjustments on the Hyatt Regency Hotel property.

Staff planner Jenny Tran told commissioners the proposal restripes the existing courts on Parcel 2 into 22 pickleball courts, provides required parking split between the TTC Newporter property and the Hyatt Regency Hotel (both under the same ownership), and includes minor surface‑parking lot improvements on the hotel property. The project requires a coastal development permit because the site is in the coastal zone and a traffic study because it generates a net increase of over 300 average daily trips.

Tran said technical studies prepared by LSA Associates concluded the project would meet the city’s traffic‑level‑of‑service requirements and that noise from the full 22‑court operation “would not create an increase in decibels perceptible to the…