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CLOVIS, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – During Monday's metropolis assembly meeting, dozens of dancers from the city's elder halfway came retired to explicit their disappointment with however the metropolis has handled adding pickleball to the center's multi-purpose room.
The dancers said the unsmooth overgarment they added to the level to outline the tribunal is making it hard to dance. However, pickleball players said they conscionable request much abstraction for their increasing sport.
"I conjecture it utilized to beryllium lone tennis versus pickleball radical oregon possibly volleyball versus pickleball, and present the ballroom dancers versus pickleball too," subordinate Hans Kam said.
Kam said he's utilized to being picked connected erstwhile it comes to uncovering a spot to play.
"I hold with them. I consciousness atrocious for them that they, they consciousness their floor, their abstraction has been taken distant by pickleball, and I'm definite tennis players consciousness the aforesaid due to the fact that a batch of clip we would instrumentality tennis courts and we would person them, we would gully chalk lines and radical would beryllium huffy astatine us," helium said.
He said determination are conscionable not capable pickleball courts successful Clovis, and helium came to Monday's gathering to inquire for more. He said the City of Fresno conscionable added dedicated pickleball courts, but it's inactive not enough. He said players are often waiting for a portion to get to play.
Meanwhile, the country was packed with dozens of dancers who came to marque their voices heard. Many of them said they're not huffy astatine the pickleball players but are upset with however the concern was handled by the city.
When dancer Jim Collins was asked if helium minded the pickleball players playing, helium replied, "No, not successful the least."
Collins said the caller overgarment the metropolis added to the creation level is unsmooth connected their shoes erstwhile they dance. He said the gritty texture makes it hard if not unsafe to rotation and turn. Collins checked retired the creation level for the archetypal clip since the overgarment was added, up of Monday's meeting.
He said earlier painting, the metropolis added tape, which helium said had its ain issues. "Distracting. But it wasn't, it didn't truly hurt. Dancing, successful my opinion. It didn't wounded dancing," helium said.
He and galore others said they privation the metropolis to find a solution that makes everyone happy. "How astir pickleball astatine Smittcamp and dancing implicit astatine the assemblage center?" assemblage subordinate Bernie McPhearson asked, referencing the caller Clovis Senior Center.
City officials and assembly members did not instrumentality immoderate authoritative enactment during the meeting, arsenic the point was not connected the assembly agenda.
City officials said they bash program to resurface the texture of the level to get escaped of the gritty texture of the paint. Meanwhile, the USA Pickleball Ambassador for Clovis, Tina Quillen, said she appreciates the effort to accommodate the pickleball players astatine the center, but it's not enough.
She's urging the metropolis to look into utilizing vacant commercialized space, the recreation center, oregon adjacent partnering with Clovis Unified School District to find a spot for the pickleball players to play.
