Do NOT remove lit Mitchell Park tennis courts

we should never remove tennis courts, we should be intelligent enough to be able to do excellent city planning

Please save those courts for tennis!

I do not support the conversion of tennis courts. It works well current as sharing; why change?

I support the current system of sharing the lower three courts in order to maximize usage.

I feel strongly that the three Mitchell Park tennis courts should not be converted to Pickleball courts.

Tennis courts are in high demand throughout the day, but we need all the courts whenever there is a competition, both for the competitors and others wanting to play at the same time.

1) Currently sharing the three lower courts is working, why punish either the tennis players or pickle ball players. Informal tennis groups already share the top four courts with tennis instructors, which makes available tennis courts in Southern Palo Alto scarce.. 2) The courts at Cubberley are cracked and not usable for competitive tennis. The last time they were resurfaced they cracked within a few months--please use a different contractor.

Tennis needs the courts! Pickle is a fad.

Please do not do it. Palo Alto seniors deserve better treatment. To switch to new sport activity is just killing us physically and emtionally. Besides, the existing situation is satisfaing both party especially in the morning. Our request is do not remove tennis nets and tennis court lines. Just leave it as is, Thanks, Edgar

Comment on paragraph 1: In Mitchel Park, at the upper four courts, there is a sign on the gate saying that tennis lessons have priority over two of the courts. I have used the courts for over 20 years, and in recent years I have indeed seen lessons in progress there frequently. If the lower three courts are gone, with lessons on the two upper courts, then there would be only two tennis courts in all of Mitchel park. And ... how many pickleball courts? Pickleball is a cool sport with many cheery and friendly people enjoying it regularly already with the existing two permanent courts at Mitchel, and the possibility for several portable courts to be set up as needed on available tennis courts. Please do not remove such a large portion of the available tennis courts. My group alone often has 8 or 12 players requiring 3 courts of doubles. twice a week. And while we play, other tennis games and lessons are usually in progress.

My comment is only about the 3 lower courts at Mitchell. I have participated in a Friday morning senior mens doubles game for over 25 years. These courts should NOT be converted to pickelball only - I see no reason that these courts can not support both tennis and pickleball. We do it now.

I play tennis regularly at Michtell Park especially in the evening since it has lighted courts. There are always many tennis players using the courts. It is important for the City of Palo Alto to continue maintain these courts for tennis instead converting them for other use.

These tennis courts are very important in shaping our community. Please keep these tennis courts because we spend time playing tennis and depend on these courts to play with our friends, family, and future generations. The community needs these tennis courts and we need to keep them.

Please keep the courts and actually repairs those at Rinconada and Cubberley, and in the other locations where they are in disrepair. Vittorio Fossati-Bellani Palo Alto

I am particularly concerned about removing courts with lights from the city's inventory of tennis courts. Pickleball is played by mostly elderly people who do not play at night. Rethink how to satisfy sensibly the needs of both tennis and pickleball players. Thank you.

The data the city received regarding the usage of the three tennis courts is misleading. Even though these courts are not reserved as often by USTA tennis leagues or by Palo Alto Tennis Club members, these courts are heavily used by players who play with friends or their families. These type of players are not even allowed to reserve courts per city rule, as a result, the city is not seeing the true picture of court usage. These courts ARE necessary for the tennis community, especially for night time play. During the summer nights, there are always tennis players waiting to use these courts. In South Palo Alto, only Mitchell Park has lit courts. Out of the seven lit courts, two are used by city coaches for private lessons and clinics, thus the public is down to five courts. If three courts were converted to pickleball courts, then the South Palo Alto tennis community is down to only two lit courts which is totally unthinkable. The city needs to find an open space to build new pickleball courts, instead of taking away tennis courts. The tennis community needs every tennis court in Palo Alto, if not more.

The 2 pickleball courts at Mitchell Park are barely used while the tennis courts are always crowded with tennis players. Why do we need to allocate more resources for a few people who do not use resources efficiently?

Please do not remove the place where the happiest moment of a day apways happens.

City should fund project with local residents priority before promoting for a regional club.

We have so far collected 113 signatures protesting the conversation. MP must be kept as one of the only two generic public tennis concentration in Palo Alto and the only one for the south Palo Alto residents. If 3 lit courts were converted, there will be only 2 lit courts left for south Palo Alto residents as the other two are reserved by the city most of the time. If converted, in Palo Alto there will be 14 lit pickleball courts vs 12 lit tennis courts, which is non-sense if we compare the number of tennis players to senior resident pickleball players. Plus the so called pickleball players are mostly from the Silicon Valley Pickle Ball Club. When they play they manage to take all 12 pickleball courts for hours (3,4,5 hours) so that their club members can drive from all over the bayarea to play in the club. They have been rejected by other cities for pickleball marks on tennis courts. There is no valid reason for the city to sacrifice individual tennis players and south Palo Alto kids and parents for private and non-resident pickleball club. Why tennis club is prohibited from taking 12 lit tennis courts for 4 hours while they are allowed ?????!!!!!