Councillors will look at relocating the district’s pickleball courts to Blue Heron Park from Wain Park.
Council discussions about the future of pickleball courts in North Saanich turned heated Monday evening, prompting a warning from the mayor that he would end the meeting if members of the public didn’t remain quiet.
They voted against a motion by Coun. Jack McClintock to consider a sound-mitigation study and to direct staff to report back on a cost estimate for acoustic panels on three sides of the now-closed Wain Park courts. The study, provided by pickleball associations, shows that sound-mitigation measures at Oak Bay’s Carnarvon Park reduced pickleball noise to levels similar to tennis.
“I would hope that council would understand that to relocate the Wain Road pickleball court would be a gross error,” McClintock said at the meeting. Coun. Celia Stock said moving the courts to a different park doesn’t have to mean ripping up the current courts, which cost the district about $150,000 when they were built.McClintock’s motion failed, with only McClintock and Stock voting in favour.People watching the meeting described it as a “trainwreck,” said Brad Watson, president of the Saanich Peninsula Pickleball Association.
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