Pickleball players are calling fault on a Denver Parks and Recreation plan to ban courts at two city parks and are accusing a parks official of making arbitrary decisions about where the sport should be played in the city.
The players believe they are being targeted because their sport is louder than tennis and basketball and is growing ever more popular with city residents, who wait in lines to play the game on public courts that stay busy from dawn to dusk.
Players are asking the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board to hold a public hearing on pickleball planning so they can find a solution that satisfies neighbors and pickleball enthusiasts. They want the issue to be included on the board’s Wednesday meeting agenda.Pickleball already was growing in popularity but it exploded during the pandemic as people searched for outdoor recreation and social opportunities.
But the tension came to a head on April 3 when the parks department announced it was canceling a plan to relocate the pickleball courts deeper into the park as part of an improvement project. Officials also posted notices on three tennis courts that pickleball is not allowed to be played there because of noise ordinance violations.
Officials realized that moving courts farther away would not ease the noise violations, Karvaski said. Brent Titensor wears a Congress Park Pickleball t-shirt as a group of pickleball players meet up to play at Martin Luther King Jr. Park in Denver on May 8, 2023, protesting against Denver Parks and Recreation’s actions to close pickleball courts and stop plans for future courts.
Hoskins said those email exchanges illustrate that Gilmore was making “reckless and arbitrary” decisions about pickleball. And it is why the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board needs to intervene.
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