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DEDICATED PICKLEBALL COURTS NEEDED IN RICHMOND HILL

Please read and do the survey! 🙏 Let’s push for year round dedicated pickleball courts. Richmond Hill is so far behind.

“Richmond Hill Pickleball Club - Mar 26th 2025
Another City Survey about Pickleball Courts.

Subject: Richmond Hill Pickleball Needs Your Voice – Complete the City Survey by April 22

Dear Richmond Hill Residents

The City of Richmond Hill has released another pickleball survey—but instead of delivering on their promises, they’re once again proposing to line more tennis courts for pickleball courts even though the previously lined courts are rarely if ever used for pickleball and when they are, they create disputes with tennis players.

We urge all members to take 1 minutes to complete the survey and speak up:
>> https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SFFWWH9

Deadline: April 22

Why This Matters:

Council unanimously (9-0) approved 16 dedicated pickleball courts at David Dunlap Observatory Park (DDOP) in 2022, but then delayed the project indefinitely, citing the need for a "tennis and pickleball" strategy which was supposed to be done in 2025.

Instead of following through on their promises, the City is doing another survey—asking the same question we already answered 18 months ago: “Should we line more tennis courts?”

Lining tennis courts has already been overwhelmingly rejected by both the pickleball and tennis communities. It creates conflict, lacks proper scheduling/policing, and does nothing to solve the growing shortage of indoor and outdoor dedicated courts.

Richmond Hill has no proper indoor pickleball facilities, despite being home to one of the largest pickleball community in Canada.

We ask that you complete this survey and ask the City if they are going to be honest and transparent with residents about building very much needed indoor/outdoor large multi-court facilities. FYI - Newmarket with a population of 89,000 is now building a 16-20 court facility that looks identical to what the City staff recommended for DDOP.

If they are not going to invest in recreational infrastructure including year-round facilities, or move forward with the indoor facility and 16-court DDO plan, then they need to tell us the truth—so that private operators will know that the City of Richmond Hill is not going to compete with them.

Thank you for being a voice for pickleball in Richmond Hill.
Let’s make sure the City hears us—loud and clear.

Sincerely,

Richmond Hill Pickleball Club”

ONE MINUTE SURVEY RICHMOND HILL PICKLEBALL - have your voice heard