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Ivins schedules site inspection for Black Desert pickleball expansion ahead of national championship
Summary
City staff organized a site inspection at Black Desert for planned pickleball courts and vertical "galleries," and said the project will return to the Planning Commission for a public hearing. Staff noted lighting standards and a compressed timeline because the national pickleball championship is scheduled for next April.
Ivins staff organized a site inspection for planned improvements at Black Desert, including new pickleball courts and vertical “galleries,” and said the proposal will return to the Planning Commission for a public hearing before construction moves forward.
City staff said the project is within an existing conditional use permit that allows uses such as pickleball courts but is complicated by new, vertically oriented gallery structures and by proposed lighting that the city’s ordinances do not fully address. Staff emphasized a compressed timeline because the developer has secured the national pickleball championship, which “happens next April,” according to Staff member 1, staff member.
The site is set below grade, which staff said will limit visual impact, but lighting associated with the courts and galleries will require review. “You’ll observe [the impact] is gonna be pretty nominal. But there’s gonna be lighting that we don’t have an ordinance that addresses fully,” Staff member 1 said. Staff member 1 also described logistics for the inspection, including meeting at the newest parking lot nearest the parkway and entering through the main entrance so planners can lead attendees to the precise location.
Staff said plans for the site had been circulated to members in advance and asked members to confirm they had no scheduling conflicts for the inspection. Participants discussed vehicle arrangements so as to consolidate cars; one participant offered to drive several attendees to the site.
The city intends to place the proposal on the Planning Commission agenda with a public hearing at the commission’s next meeting. Staff asked commission members to become familiar with “the reasons why it should or should not be built” ahead of that hearing. Staff also indicated that lighting standards will be a separate forthcoming agenda item before the Planning Commission and possibly other bodies.
No formal motion or vote was recorded in the transcript. The public hearing and any ordinance or permit modifications required for lighting or vertical gallery structures will determine whether the project proceeds as proposed.
