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Tucker advances Rosenfeld Park renovation and directs manager to rebid pickleball courts
Summary
Council heard a staff update on Rosenfeld Park tennis-court reconstruction and, after extended debate over sound mitigation and neighborhood outreach, narrowly (4–3) directed the city manager to reissue the RFP for the most recent pickleball/tennis design so the city can obtain firm contractor pricing and return with a contract for council consideration.
The Tucker City Council on June 9 moved to restart the procurement process for the city’s latest pickleball/tennis design and advanced a long‑planned renovation at Rosenfeld Park.
City project manager Rip presented the Rosenfeld Park Tennis Court renovation, saying erosion beneath the courts requires demolition and reconstruction and that the project will restore stormwater and erosion controls, remove and replace the retaining wall and reconstruct three tennis courts. The design includes fence‑mounted court lighting, and staff proposed roughly 8–10 off‑street parking spaces to ease existing on‑street parking complaints. Rip said the city could make the courts shared use for pickleball “just require striping for pickleball on the existing courts,” which would allow for six pickleball courts on the site.
Council members and residents pressed staff on several operational and design details: whether the project would preserve or replace restrooms, how the parking design would affect adjacent driveways, whether the dog park should remain, and how to manage noise if courts are used for pickleball. Staff said the bathrooms will remain and that any sound‑mitigation measures could be added to the bid packet; they also recommended additional public meetings to gather neighborhood input before construction.
After a contentious exchange about the adequacy of prior community outreach and the need for a firm price to evaluate options, the council voted 4–3 to direct the city manager to reissue the RFP/RFQ for the most recent design iteration so the city will receive a lowest‑qualified bidder to consider. The mayor and council said the reissued procurement should proceed alongside targeted sound‑mitigation analysis and additional community meetings so operational conditions (hours, programming, mitigation) can be shaped by both technical study and resident input.
What’s next: Staff will reissue the procurement and return to the council with the low qualifying bid and recommended contract. Councilmembers said they expect additional opportunities for public comment and that sound‑mitigation recommendations (from firms such as PSM, referenced in the meeting) will be used to refine contract scope or to add a separate mitigation contract if needed.
