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Camas Parks Commission nixes pickleball fixes

Interim parks director tells Commission he found few affordable noise-abatement options

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Camas residents Dawn Hendricks (left) and John Hendricks set up a pickleball net at the shared tennis-pickleball courts at Crown Park in Camas, Aug. 12, 2024. (Kelly Moyer/Post-Record files)

The Camas Parks and Recreation Commission has rejected a series of possible remedies that could have helped soothe neighborhood complaints about loud noises coming from the shared-use tennis-pickleball courts at Crown Park.

At the Commission’s Dec. 5 meeting, Camas Communications Director Bryan Rachal — who has been acting as the City’s interim parks director since former director Trang Lam took a new position leading the Port of Camas-Washougal last summer — presented several pickleball noise-abatement possibilities to the Commission members.

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