Milpitas council keeps Hall Park pickleball under pilot, orders noise and parking mitigations and further study

The Milpitas City Council on May 21 directed staff to implement a set of mitigation measures at Hall Park and to study permanent or alternative locations for expanded pickleball courts rather than immediately converting two tennis courts into six permanent pickleball courts.

Council members voted unanimously to instruct staff to install additional sound-dampening panels and fence reinforcements, improve signage and queuing, paint tandem parking lines on La Honda Drive, add red curbing for emergency access in the Hall Park parking lot, and propose funding in the capital-improvement program for further study of permanent and alternative locations — including indoor options. Staff estimated the Hall Park work and program improvements would raise the total CIP budget for the project to about $200,000 (the original CIP 5116 budget was $100,000 and $68,000 remained unspent at the time of the meeting).

Renee Lawrenson, director of Recreation and Community Services, reviewed the pilot history and…