A sign posted on the fence reads, “Pickleball is no longer allowed in Seravalli Playground. Nearby courts are located at: J.J. Walker Park.'
“I think that the two courts [are] an invitation for pickleball in the entire park and the challenge is, when those nets go up, they cut off the entire park,” mother of two Jennifer Gravel said at the October hearing. “Our children go into the park, they feel unwelcome and they walk away.”
But some proponents of the paddleboard sport who spoke on Wednesday said they were disappointed in the move and argued that more could have been done to mediate the situation at Seravalli, which had become a hub for the area’s pickleball community. “It [was] this beautiful feeling that you get when you go into this playground and you're meeting the local community,” said West Village resident and pickleball player Ryan Shank, who lives near Seravalli and described it as a center of community. “What else is bringing us together in this type of way?”
Shank and other pickleball proponents said it was unfair to ban the sport from Seravalli altogether, and claimed that the source of the conflict occurred during a relatively short window of time after school, when kids and pickleball players’ use of the playground overlapped. The idea of setting rules for pickleball players at Seravalli had previously come up at the meeting in October, but on Wednesday, Flores said the department didn’t have the resources to establish a formal system. She did, however, ensure that the department would be able to enforce the new pickleball ban at the playground.
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