Glendale is separating tennis and pickleball play by making it illegal to bring pickleball nets onto tennis courts and building each sport new courts.
within 500 feet of homes over similar concerns.
When it comes to comparing the pickeball craze to rugby's arrival in Glendale, Lines says it isn’t as similar as people may think. He estimates that Infinity Park is only actually used for rugby about 5 percent of the time. The rest is devoted to sports likeBecause a rugby pitch is so large, multiple games can be played on the field at once. Leagues can also rent the space and the city leaves the lights on so kids can play soccer there in evenings when it isn’t in use.
Glendale knew that even if Infinity Park wasn’t occupied with rugby every day, it could get many uses out of the area, according to Lines, which isn’t the same in a mixed tennis-pickleball scenario. It did attempt to mix the two sports — striping lines for pickleball onto its tennis courts. But tennis players found it too distracting, Line says.
The tank hasn’t held water since the late 1960s and Lines says the structure capping it off has needed refurbishment for about twenty years because it’s crumbling. Glendale is putting $100,000 toward the project, according to Lines. Most of that money is actually going toward the materials deeper below the tennis courts where construction crews are fixing chipped concrete, replacing about 30 percent of the existing concrete structure.
Pickleball is just one aspect of a giant park improvement project there funded by a $500,000 grant from Arapahoe County, Line says.
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