Good evening this is Brent Turner. Two years ago, my wife and I began working on the Simon Turner Memorial Garden project -trying to bring a safe, interactive fountain to the city. We know from our participation in the focus groups that it was something desired by some residents. We're hosting a public meeting on Wednesday, April 28th, at 6:00pm to introduce our concept and would love to get community feedback. There will be a Facebook event available by the end of the week that you can find by searching for Simon Turner Memorial Garden. We appreciate the opportunity to work with the City to enhance Frederick's parks.
March 30, 2020
Good Evening,
I am here to comment on the Master Plan information I have just seen. These comments were prepared before seeing the extensive presentation just witnessed. Thank you for it! I will first speak of a pickleball opportunity to act on now, and then give my take on ten larger opportunities and needs that summarize many of the areas we just heard about.
I have been working with P&R Staff since I started playing pickleball just over two years ago. While improvements have been made to pickleball offerings Frederick can already be proud of, in my view there are also significant opportunities for improvements. For example, to my surprise I learned of this meeting last Thursday afternoon when I received a response to a letter advocating for the renovation of the decrepit Monocacy Village Park tennis courts into eight regulation pickleball courts or a Pickleball-plex. That specific request was to use the sport court renovation FY22 funds in the CIP to start the renovation in July for a Spring 2022 opening. I note this would reduce the number of regulation tennis courts of twenty-three by two that are decrepit anyway and increase regulation outdoor pickleball courts from zero to eight! It’s simply time for Parks and Recreation to better serve Pickleball outdoors at no cost to Tennis! Indeed, every renovation like this would free up tennis court space being used as single non-regulation pickleball courts.
So last Thursday I accelerated the suggested renovation that I had intended to gradually introduce to the Frederick Pickleball community. Instead of gradually building support, within a few hours the petition was launched on http://change.org/Pickleball-plex4Frederick in Monocacy Village Park - start renovation now for 2022 grand opening! Wow what a response 246 signatures and counting at the time of this meeting five days later. Please go check it out and sign. The petition will be entered into the public written record after tonight’s meeting. Briefly again it asks for renovation of existing P&R facilities to serve Pickleball -Frederick’s fastest growing sport rather than waiting for Avalon Park at much greater expense and for an uncertain time more than five years from now. I hope our petition is take considered seriously and the excellent opportunity to quickly serve many taxpayers of the city is realized.
Good evening this is Brent Turner. Two years ago, my wife and I began working on the Simon Turner Memorial Garden project -trying to bring a safe, interactive fountain to the city. We know from our participation in the focus groups that it was something desired by some residents. We're hosting a public meeting on Wednesday, April 28th, at 6:00pm to introduce our concept and would love to get community feedback. There will be a Facebook event available by the end of the week that you can find by searching for Simon Turner Memorial Garden. We appreciate the opportunity to work with the City to enhance Frederick's parks.
March 30, 2020
Good Evening,
I am here to comment on the Master Plan information I have just seen. These comments were prepared before seeing the extensive presentation just witnessed. Thank you for it! I will first speak of a pickleball opportunity to act on now, and then give my take on ten larger opportunities and needs that summarize many of the areas we just heard about.
I have been working with P&R Staff since I started playing pickleball just over two years ago. While improvements have been made to pickleball offerings Frederick can already be proud of, in my view there are also significant opportunities for improvements. For example, to my surprise I learned of this meeting last Thursday afternoon when I received a response to a letter advocating for the renovation of the decrepit Monocacy Village Park tennis courts into eight regulation pickleball courts or a Pickleball-plex. That specific request was to use the sport court renovation FY22 funds in the CIP to start the renovation in July for a Spring 2022 opening. I note this would reduce the number of regulation tennis courts of twenty-three by two that are decrepit anyway and increase regulation outdoor pickleball courts from zero to eight! It’s simply time for Parks and Recreation to better serve Pickleball outdoors at no cost to Tennis! Indeed, every renovation like this would free up tennis court space being used as single non-regulation pickleball courts.
So last Thursday I accelerated the suggested renovation that I had intended to gradually introduce to the Frederick Pickleball community. Instead of gradually building support, within a few hours the petition was launched on http://change.org/Pickleball-plex4Frederick in Monocacy Village Park - start renovation now for 2022 grand opening! Wow what a response 246 signatures and counting at the time of this meeting five days later. Please go check it out and sign. The petition will be entered into the public written record after tonight’s meeting. Briefly again it asks for renovation of existing P&R facilities to serve Pickleball -Frederick’s fastest growing sport rather than waiting for Avalon Park at much greater expense and for an uncertain time more than five years from now. I hope our petition is take considered seriously and the excellent opportunity to quickly serve many taxpayers of the city is realized.
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