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Committee pauses pickleball planning as site debate resurfaces; Yellow Banks disc golf deferred
Summary
Village Parks & Rec members deferred the Yellow Banks disc golf item and paused further design work on pickleball courts amid disagreement over preferred sites (Mach Mueller, ProHaska, Yellow Banks) and a small survey (88 respondents) that favored Yellow Banks by 59% but was judged too small to settle location decisions.
Committee members debated where to place new pickleball courts and whether to move forward at Yellow Banks after staff presented survey results and site sketches. The committee also deferred discussion of Yellow Banks Disc Golf until stakeholder representatives can attend a future meeting.
Staff recapped prior direction: the committee previously directed design work for Mach Mueller Park but later entertained ProHaska and Yellow Banks as alternatives. One committee member criticized the repeated site changes as process-driven. "This is becoming an exercise in bad faith," the committee member (Speaker 8) said, arguing the group had shifted goals and raised environmental concerns about Yellow Banks.
Survey and site constraints
- Staff reported 88 survey respondents and noted 59% of those responses favored Yellow Banks; staff cautioned the sample size is small and missing 'other' free-text responses (blocked by a firewall) limited interpretation.
- A quick site-sizing sketch estimated about 67,000 square feet south of an existing warehouse could hold up to 12 courts plus parking and a shelter but called the layout "tight," with concerns about restroom capacity, parking and the impact on the river corridor.
Committee direction and next steps
Staff recommended pausing active design work until the pickleball user group reaches clarity on a preferred location; members agreed not to advance construction funding or detailed design without clearer user-group consensus. The Yellow Banks Disc Golf agenda item was deferred to a future meeting so key volunteer maintainers and stakeholder representatives can attend.
No binding financial commitments or construction approvals were made; staff will await additional input from user groups and invited stakeholders before resuming design work.
