Dozens of Los Gatos residents and pickleball players clashed at a community meeting over a yearslong noise dispute that has led to vandalism and verbal threats. Town officials proposed a $90,000 plan including resurfacing courts, installing sound barriers, monitoring security cameras and adding a time-sensitive locking gate. The measures aim to reduce noise and ease animosity after two courts were vandalized with oil and made unusable. Court renovations are scheduled from October to December to restore the damaged courts. Multiple incidents, including four reports in the past year, have escalated hostility between neighbors and players.
Dozens of Los Gatos residents and pickleball players spoke over each other, cussed under their breath and rolled their eyes at a community meeting Monday - all over a yearslong noise dispute that's led to vandalism and verbal threats. Town officials at the meeting, hosted on Los Gatos' outdoor pickleball courts at La Rinconada Park, laid out their $90,000 solution to the ongoing friction.
It includes resurfacing the courts, installing sound barriers, monitoring security cameras and installing a time-sensitive locking gate. The efforts are an attempt to ease the animosity brewing between neighborhood residents and pickleball players over the sport's noise, after the situation reached a boiling point when someone vandalized two of the four pickleball courts with oil. The two courts are now unusable.
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