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Old 03-24-2024, 08:58 PM
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Originally Posted by charmed59 View Post
In the mornings before 10:30 tennis courts are well utilized everywhere. I know folks trying to get new court reservations because their reserved courts at Rohan and Burnsed were closed. It was pretty much impossible to get early morning. They ended up cutting a number of players from their group.

That said, wander to Seabreeze at 9 on Thursdays at Seabreeze and there are people playing tennis, sand tennis, touch tennis on the platform courts, and platform tennis and yet the pickleball courts are empty. People don’t show up until around 10.

At any moment in time there are tons of resources that are not being used. Neighborhood Pools, horseshoes, shuffle board, bocce, bean bag toss everywhere are all empty about 15 hours a day. Not to mention the parking lots. But people do use them. And it would be a shame to lose any of the amenities.
Expect for soccer fields at first responders, they are hardly ever used.