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Encinitas residents tell council Bobby Riggs pickleball expansion has created noise, parking and safety problems
Summary
Eighteen speakers at oral communications described loud play, late-night lights and inadequate parking at the Bobby Riggs facility after its conversion from seven tennis courts to 22 pickleball courts. Residents urged enforcement of noise and parking rules and asked the city to require permits or shut the site until violations are resolved.
Dozens of residents described ongoing neighborhood impacts from the Bobby Riggs facility’s conversion from seven tennis courts to 22 pickleball courts during the City Council’s oral-communications period.
Neighbors said the facility’s amplified sounds, shouting, late-night light spill, and overflow parking have made life near Windsor Road difficult. Several speakers said they support pickleball as a recreational activity but not at the facility’s current scale and without stronger enforcement of the city’s noise and parking rules.
“Since the conversion from 7 tennis courts to 22 pickleball courts… the noise…
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