Cc<\/strong>: Seattle Board of Park Commissioners (Rachel.Acosta@seattle.gov); Seattle Park District Oversight Committee (shanyanika.burton@seattle.gov)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Subject<\/strong>: SPR offers 145 dedicated tennis courts and 0 dedicated pickleball courts<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Dear Seattle Parks and Recreation Strategic Planners,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Seattle Metro Pickleball Association reviewed with great interest the November 6 draft version of the Seattle Parks and Recreation 2019 Strategic Plan. We were quite disturbed to see on page 6 of the plan, in the \u201cWhat we offer\u201d section, that you chose to state that you currently offer 140 outdoor tennis courts and 93 pickleball courts, without any further explanation. Here is the blurb in question:<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n While that statement might be factually correct as it pertains to tennis courts, it is completely misleading as it will make readers think that you currently offer roughly equivalent access to tennis and pickleball facilities, while in fact tennis playing opportunities greatly exceed pickleball playing opportunities as demonstrated in the following table.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n This comparison provides a more accurate accounting of the generosity of facilities provided on behalf of tennis versus the paucity of actual pickleball courts.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n We respectfully ask that you update the next draft of the Strategic Plan to make it unambiguously clear to the readers that you currently offer 145 dedicated tennis courts and 0 dedicated pickleball courts.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Sincerely,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Seattle Metro Pickleball Association Board of Directors On December 19th, we received the following reply:<\/p>\n\n\n\n From<\/strong>: PKS_SPRStrategicPlan <PKS_SPRStrategicPlan@seattle.gov><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Cc<\/strong>: Acosta, Rachel <Rachel.Acosta@seattle.gov>; McElroy, Shanyanika <Shanyanika.McElroy@seattle.gov><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Subject<\/strong>: RE: SPR offers 145 dedicated tennis courts and 0 dedicated pickleball courts<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Dear Seattle Metro Pickleball Association Board of Directors,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Thank you for reaching out and sharing your thoughts. We agree that we could be clearer in our Strategic Plan about how we describe pickleball courts vs. pickleball access. The 93 court figure is our inventory of all spaces, indoor and outdoor, where pickleball can be played throughout our system. However, to your comment, we will update that section of the Strategic Plan to read \u201c37 outdoor courts lined for pickleball\u201d to have greater comparability with the outdoor tennis court figure. In addition to the 33 outdoor courts listed on your website here: https:\/\/seattlemetropickleball.com\/Courts.html*, in fall 2019 SPR lined 4 additional courts at Walt Hundley Playfield.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"140](\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/StrategicPlanNumberOfCourts.png\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/td> Tennis<\/em><\/strong><\/td> Pickleball<\/em><\/strong><\/td><\/tr> Outdoor<\/em><\/strong><\/td> 125<\/strong> dedicated tennis courts<\/td> 0<\/strong> dedicated pickleball courts<\/td><\/tr> Outdoor<\/em><\/strong><\/td> 15<\/strong> tennis courts shared with pickleball players.<\/td> 28<\/strong> pickleball courts shared with tennis players, tennis teams, tennis instructors, tennis camps.<\/td><\/tr> Outdoor<\/em><\/strong><\/td> Nets provided.<\/td> Nets rarely provided. Players need to bring and install their own pickleball net – an equity issue.<\/td><\/tr> Outdoor<\/em><\/strong><\/td> <\/td> Only 2 to 4 adjacent pickleball courts offered at any one venue, which is contrary to the social aspect of the sport.<\/td><\/tr> Indoor<\/em><\/strong><\/td> 20<\/strong> dedicated tennis courts<\/td> 0<\/strong> dedicated pickleball courts<\/td><\/tr> Indoor<\/em><\/strong><\/td> <\/td> 62 mostly badminton<\/strong> courts in multi-sport indoor gyms. (Badminton court lines only approximate pickleball court lines.)<\/td><\/tr> Indoor<\/em><\/strong><\/td> Over 2200<\/strong> indoor tennis court hours per week available 7 days a week from early morning until late at night<\/td> About 320<\/strong> indoor pickleball court hours a week available mostly Monday through Friday between the hours of 10 am and 2 pm<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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