“We Recommend Full Funding”
Thank you to all of you who reached out to the Seatle Board of Parks and Recreation Commissioners recently. Your efforts bore fruit.
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Montlake Community Center Reopening Survey
The Montlake community center will be reopening \”soon\”. They ask you to tell them what kind of activities you would like to see them offer when they reopen.
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Dear Board of Parks and Recreation Commissioners,
Last month, the Board of Parks Commissioners organized a Q&A session regarding the upcoming Seattle Park District funding plan. They asked you to submit your questions ahead of time, which you did. You sent in over 50 pickleball-related questions. That was over half of all questions submitted. Unfortunately, not a single one of your questions
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Kent’s 2022 Parks and Open Space Plan Draft- Final Comments
Thank you to everyone who provided input on the city of Kent\’s 2022 Parks and Open Space Plan. The Parks department has incorporated your input and is ready to receive your final comments on the Draft Plan.
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Lots of Qs. No As.
They asked for your questions. They did not have any answers.
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Pickleball Open House – Summary
On Wednesday March 30th, 2022, Seattle Parks held the first of two public meetings about their new plans for the future of outdoor pickleball. Here are my notes from the meeting and my attempt at answering your most frequent questions about this meeting.
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Seattle’s Rainier to be closed. Jefferson to reopen.
Seattle Parks will close the Rainier Community Center from mid-June 2022 until spring 2023 to make the building ADA accessible
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Seattle Parks\’ Pickleball Survey Results
In January, Seattle Parks issued a survey on how to best support the current demand for pickleball courts. We invited you to check the boxes and fill in the blank spaces. You and 3300 of your friends answered the questions, and the results are now available in two parts:
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Seattle Parks Reviews Pickleball Court Lines Policy. Pickleball Players Not Invited.
Seattle Parks recently held a meeting to review their official policy that says that when they paint pickleball lines on outdoor tennis courts, they will only paint two pickleball courts per tennis courts, even if many more will fit. Who represented tennis players at this meeting? The Seattle Parks employee in charge of Seattle Parks’
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How to navigate the Spring 2022 school tennis season
Seattle The pickleball courts at Green Lake, Miller, Brighton, Soundview, and Bitter Lake will be impacted by high school tennis teams from February 28 through May 26. Exact times vary from day to day, depending on practice/match schedules, but users should expect courts to be in use starting at 3pm through at least 6pm at
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