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Tennis community urges council to block Libby Park pickleball tournament, calls it a precedent

Ojai City Council · March 25, 2026
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Summary

Several tennis‑community members and neighborhood residents urged the council to nullify a rec‑department approval permitting a pickleball tournament at Libby (Liberty/Libby) Park, arguing the city spent hundreds of thousands on dedicated pickleball courts elsewhere and that allowing the event would set a damaging precedent.

Public comments at the March 24 council meeting focused heavily on a contested decision by the Ojai Recreation Department to hold a pickleball tournament at the four‑court Lower Libby Courts on a weekend when community tennis users were denied reservations.

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