{"id":13493,"date":"2023-03-23T02:29:51","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T06:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/?p=13493"},"modified":"2023-03-23T02:29:51","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T06:29:51","slug":"lavallette-considering-changes-to-tennis-pickleball-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2023\/03\/lavallette-considering-changes-to-tennis-pickleball-fees\/","title":{"rendered":"Lavallette Considering Changes to Tennis, Pickleball Fees"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lavallette\u2019s pickleball courts. (Photo: Anita Zalom)<\/p><\/div>\n

Lavallette is considering establishing a new seasonal recreation pass that would allow those wishing to play tennis or pickleball to pay a single fee rather than paying hourly fees for court time.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople could opt to buy an annual $50 pass and there would be no hourly fee,\u201d said Borough Administrator John Bennett, who is drafting the plan and intends to work with residents to iron out the details. \u201cThere would be a little badge, just like the beach. But you don\u2019t have to buy the $50, we\u2019re not eliminating [hourly access].<\/p>\n

Pickleball, in particular, has exploded in popularity in recent years with Lavallette becoming something of a regional capital for the growing sport. A group of residents began a league, of sorts, and began managing time slots for the courts and collecting the $5-per-hour charge. While the group was created under friendly terms, some have questioned whether it is appropriate for certain residents to claim authority over court usage scheduling, or collect money for court time, leading officials to consider a more traditional approach.<\/p>\n

Under Bennett\u2019s proposal, an employee of the recreation department would man a booth at the courts and set aside court times.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe design is to try to make it easier for everybody, and we would have somebody there at the booth,\u201d he said. \u201cWe would recommend reservations still be made.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kathy Grandstrand, one of the organizers of the pickleball group, said at a council meeting this week that she and her friends volunteered to organize court usage in the past, asking Bennett for a meeting to discuss changes before they become baked into the borough\u2019s recreation ordinance.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe facilitate the collection of the money to accommodate what that ordinance says,\u201d Grandstrand said. \u201cWe sold our own badges only to accommodate the ordinance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bennett said he would coordinate with the group and take their input into account before submitting a full proposal and draft ordinance to the borough council.<\/p>\n

\u201d I\u2019ve only done the draft,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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Lavallette is considering establishing a new seasonal recreation pass that would allow those wishing to play tennis or pickleball to pay a single fee rather than paying hourly fees for court time. \u201cPeople could opt to buy an annual $50 pass and there would be no hourly fee,\u201d said Borough Administrator John Bennett, who is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"#Lavallette #NJ Considering Changes to #Tennis, #Pickleball Fees","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[1959,29,1819,690,1145,1078],"class_list":["post-13493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lavallette-government","category-lavallette","tag-featured","tag-lavallette-nj-news","tag-pickleball","tag-recreation-department","tag-tennis","tag-tennis-courts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_20210905_105706136_HDR.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgsn9q-3vD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}