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Students urge more pickleball courts; neighbors raise speeding and water-quality concerns
Summary
High school students told commissioners the Central Park pickleball courts are full nightly and requested conversion/addition of courts; residents raised speeding, dog control, and suspected water-quality/boil‑water advisory concerns on Montgomery Avenue and asked for traffic calming and parking assistance for disabled residents.
Young players and neighborhood residents used the commission’s public‑comment period on April 23 to press the city for recreational and safety fixes.
Rudy Robinson, a sophomore at Paul G. Blazer, said 50–70 middle‑ and high‑school students use the courts most nights and asked the city to convert two tennis courts to pickleball and build additional courts. “There’s a need for more courts,” he said. Student Gavin Vincent said he uses the courts six days a week and described…
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