Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

Des membres du personnel avec O, pardon. Avant de commencer, nous avons plusieurs membres du personnel ici pour nous assister ce soir. Du service des parcs et loisirs, nous avons Kim Castro qui dirigera la majeure partie de notre discussion ce soir. Elle est notre responsable des parcs et de nos loisirs. With Kim, we have Gail Ichijo, our marketing and event coordinator, who manages and coordinates a large part of the awareness with her team. With her tonight, we have Richard Chung. And we also have Apeksha. And for tonight, we will review the big lines of our investigation. So, for those of you who had the opportunity to answer our survey, thank you very much. We will show you or share with you the results. In addition, we will proceed with the evaluation and study of the sites and recommendations that we have based on the evaluation of each park of Santa Clara. And then, we will ask for feedback from you, the community. In addition, we will have some opportunities not only to share O, I'm sorry. I forgot Angelique Wilson, who is also with us. There she is. I didn't have my screen under my eyes. Thank you also for joining us, Angelique. Angelique manages our tennis contract with Lifetime Tennis, who was present during our meeting in person. Je ne suis pas sûr qu'ils aient pu se joindre à nous ce soir. Mais nous partagerons tous les retours que nous avons reçus de la communauté concernant leur service, ainsi que le tennis et le pickleball également. Il y aura quelques occasions d'interagir. We will do some surveys and, towards the end of the evening, we will also ask everyone to share with us their feedback and reactions on the various sites that we have selected as being the most suitable for pickleball courses throughout the city of Santa Clara. So, I think we will have plenty of time. Nous avons fait cette même présentation en une heure et demie environ, en personne, avec beaucoup de participation, de retour, et les gens se levaient et se déplaçaient dans la salle. Quelque chose que nous ne ferons pas virtuellement. Donc, nous aurons largement le temps. Nous voulons vous entendre. Et à la fin de la réunion de ce soir, nous expliquerons quelles seront nos prochaines étapes. Donc, encore une fois, merci d'être avec nous ce soir. Je vais passer la parole à notre responsable des loisirs, Kim Castro, qui va nous guider pour le début de la réunion de ce soir. Merci.

Génial. Merci beaucoup, Damon. Je suis ravie d'être ici ce soir. Nous allons lancer un sondage comme première étape pour avoir une idée des personnes présentes ce soir. Cela devrait apparaître sur votre écran. Il y a quatre questions. Nous partagerons les résultats en direct avec vous au fur et à mesure. Alors, n'hésitez pas à commencer à saisir vos réponses. Et lorsque nous sentirons que la majorité des personnes, nous sommes 34 présents ce soir, aura voté, dites-nous si vous étiez à notre réunion la semaine dernière et quel est votre sport principal. Are you a tennis player? Are you a pickleball player? Do you play both? We would also like to know if you live in the city of Santa Clara, it helps us to orient the process. And as Damon said, when you examine the facilities and equipment in the city, it really helps us to be informed to move forward. Nous avons environ 22 personnes qui ont participé. Nous allons patienter quelques secondes de plus pour avoir quelques personnes supplémentaires. Dans ce sondage, nous sommes arrivés à 24. Bon travail à tous. 80% d'entre nous sont présents ce soir. Quelqu'un d'autre ? Et fin dans 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Très bien. Nous allons clore le sondage et partager les résultats pour que vous puissiez voir qui est parmi nous ce soir. Johan, peux-tu partager cela? Voyons voir.

Je clique sur partager les résultats. Je ne sais pas si vous pouvez les voir de votre côté.

D'accord. Je peux voir de mon côté que 24% des personnes interrogées étaient présentes à la réunion la semaine dernière. Environ 76% n'ont pas pu y assister. Nous sommes assez partagés, 40% et 36% de joueurs de tennis et de joueurs de pickleball ici. Et nous avons environ 20% qui pratiquent les deux. A handful of people are defenders, spectators and, or friends of the players. And the majority of the people present in the room live in Santa Clara. We have 38% of the participants who have not done it, and about 58% of you have responded to the online survey that we conducted during the summer. On this, we will move on to the rest of our presentation. So, thank you for doing it. During the summer, in June and July, we launched a community awareness campaign to broadcast the survey to which many of you were able to respond. We launched it on the page dedicated to park projects. We carried out an online survey. We used an anchor in the SVP mail as well as a campaign on the website and social networks. We are also addressed to our councils and commissions, including the park and leisure commission, the cultural commission, the senior consultative commission and the youth commission. We have distributed flyers on the courses. We have 11 courses in the city of Santa Clara. We also used the display panels of some of our main parks to inform the public and we did the promotion in June. In June, we also organized some community events and we carried out awareness actions on the VIF. On June 5 and 6, during our night walk in the city center, we collected the opinions of the participants. On June 19, we organized a concert in the park. On June 18, we held a barbecue in the center for seniors, which allowed us to exchange with people at that time. If you were present at one of these events, you saw stickers posted on panels with small tennis and pickleball rackets. People chose their favorite sport and expressed their expectations about these equipment at Santa Clara. We continued this process during our July 4 event at Mission College, then we had three concerts in the park in July, as well as a night market in July. The survey ended at the end of July, and here are the figures we obtained. More than 1,100 people responded to the online survey. We also proposed paper forms, of which we received about 319 copies. In total, 1,420 surveys were filled. This has provided us with valuable data that we will share with you right now on the feelings of the inhabitants regarding the equipment we currently have at Santa Clara. We will present you these results, then we will detail our research. We would like to know, why do you use these courses? We have about 464 of our respondents who play tennis and more than 500 who play pickleball. But we have an anomaly. 121 people practice both sports. And so, this shows a strong demand for our classes. We also want to know when you go there. Well, our classes are very used at any time of the day. We observe a peak of influx in the morning, from 10am to noon, our classes being used weekly. We see another period between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m., with the influx after work during the evening. Once again, this survey was conducted in the summer, and we know that the habits of activities change in the summer because the days are longer. All our classes are not lightened, but people certainly play at night. In fact, from next week, the lighting of our courses will light up at 6 a.m. when the parks are opened, will be turned off at 7.30 a.m., then will remain on at night, from sunset until 10 p.m. We try to offer as many opportunities as possible to play. We also want to know where you usually play. We see that most of our respondents play at Central Park. Then, among the following, we find Henry Schmitt, Maywood, but we also note very popular sites such as Earl Carmichael Park, the very sought-after middle school courses, Lickmill also very used, as well as Mary Gomez, located in retreat on the St Thomas highway. Il y a donc une utilisation importante de tous nos cours. La semaine dernière, nous avons aussi entendu. Nous ne savions pas que vous aviez des cours dans tous ces parcs. Nous espérons donc que ce processus a été un peu instructif pour vous également. La question suivante était, quels cours devraient être convertis? Devrions-nous convertir certains de nos cours de tennis en cours de pickleball? Nous avons noté un partage très équilibré entre convertir à Central Park et ne rien convertir du tout. As you can imagine, since both sports are very popular, this is what we observed throughout our survey. Are there any conflux and conflicts during the use of our courses? The answers, sometimes, and, often, are mostly found in this survey. Nearly 900 respondents indicate seeing a lot of conflux and conflicts during the use of the courses. E. Cela ne vous surprendra probablement pas, vous qui êtes présent à cet appel ce soir et qui utilisez nos cours régulièrement. E. Nous avons ensuite parlé de l'accès aux cours. Est-il facile d'obtenir un cours ou est-ce très difficile? 1. Signifiant que c'est très facile et 5. Que c'est vraiment difficile. e Nous avons évalué cela à environ 3,5 e Ce qui signifie qu'il est relativement difficile de trouver un cours quand on le souhaite, surtout, semble-t-il, aux heures de pointe. e Ensuite, nous avons commencé à essayer de e Rassembler certains thèmes qui revenaient. There were many opportunities in the survey to talk about what and add comments and we therefore grouped these comments into categories. rarity of courses, influence and access to reservations. Many comments on this subject come from more than half of our respondents. So, it is difficult to get a course and it is difficult to practice these two sports in Santa Clara. We have seen many comments on the application of the rules and the use of the courses. So, people who exceed their limits or who have users not registered on our courses, private coaching, which is not allowed in the city of Santa Clara, reservation problems with Lifetime Activities, and others that we could observe on our courses. E. And this simply leads to a competition for the space of our courses. E. Conflicts between our users of tennis courses. E. And our pickleball players who want the same space at the same time of the day. E. A few more comments on how the respondents think we can improve the experience of pickleball and tennis in the city of Santa Clara. e beaucoup de gens disent que nous devrions dédier des cours au pickleball et que nous devrions dédier des cours au tennis. Il y a 35 cours de tennis dans la ville de Santa Clara et il y a 6 cours à usage mixte ou de pickleball dans la ville de Santa Clara au CRC ou sur le site du Central Park. E. The two courses over there. So, these are double-track and double-use courses, E. But there are no dedicated courses in the city of Santa Clara. E. Many respondents said that what would improve their experience would be to provide additional courses, to provide additional lighting for the courses, E. And to improve the state of the courses. So, we have, we already had a project to be able to improve Henry Schmitt. We will redo the coating, let's hope before the end of the civil year. The lights have been redone and as I mentioned a few slides ago, we will light all the lights of the courses in the city of Santa Clara at 6 o'clock, time at which the park opens according to the municipal code. This will allow, we hope, more tennis players to access the courses earlier in the morning and increase the playing time. We have clearly seen concerns about the reservation system used by Lifetime Activities and the staff planned a meeting with them in September. They were present at our meeting last week and discussed their experience with several clients. Some of you have asked for a better signage and clearer rules, which the staff will examine over the next few months. Encore une fois, voici des domaines d'amélioration identifiés par la communauté du tennis et du pickleball. Il est absolument nécessaire d'augmenter la capacité globale des cours. Améliorer les systèmes d'inscription et la gestion des accès. Être plus transparent sur les règles de réservation. Gérer les listes d'attente et mieux faire respecter l'interdiction d'utiliser les cours pour des leçons non autorisées. We can hear the complaints of the community concerning the cracked surfaces, the erased lines, the damaged nets and the windmills. Our staff also works on this point. Inadequate cleaning and inconsistent maintenance through the system. Need to renew the coating of the courts. Need to repair equipment, lighting and extend access at night. C'est un point facile à résoudre maintenant que nous avons des minuteries doubles sur nos systèmes d'éclairage, nous pourrons allumer les lumières le matin et le soir. Les installations peuvent rester ouvertes jusqu'à 22 heures. Nous espérons que cela permettra de jouer davantage sur les cours équipés d'éclairage. Je veux m'arrêter ici et faire une pause pour voir s'il y a des questions du groupe avant de passer à la section sur nos recherches et évaluations de ce soir. Once again, the members present can use the chat or Q&A function to submit a question and our staff to read aloud. After the end of this meeting, we will publish it on our website with a FAQ and we hope to be able to share the recording for those who cannot be present tonight. Do we have any questions? on the data we shared. A question has been raised. It concerns the confusion about lighting. Is it only for tennis?

Yes, lighting concerns only tennis courts, existing tennis courts.

And another question was asked, were there tennis courses behind the Levis parking lot in the city of Santa Clara?

On the old golf course. Yes, they were managed by American Golf and Tennis at the time, but they were on a municipal property. They were managed by a private company at that time. Alors, l'éclairage pour le pickleball fera-t-il partie de l'avenir ? Je l'espère certainement. Cela aiderait, n'est-ce pas ?

E. One more question. Are the classes near the leisure center approved as dedicated pickleball classes? I was told yes.

This is part of the process we are following. So, are the classes at the community leisure center dedicated to pickleball? Well, this is certainly part of this assessment. We will collect your opinions on this subject tonight. E. Should it be converted into permanent and dedicated pickleball classes and no longer be shared? E, nous avons également d'autres sites à évaluer. Donc, nous en parlerons dans quelques diapositives. Oui.

Autre chose ? Non, c'est tout pour le moment. Très bien, merci. Si vous avez d'autres questions au fur et à mesure, n'hésitez pas à les poser dans le chat, notre équipe les surveille. So, with this data, the staff wanted to evaluate and examine our research as well as the needs of our community. The city of Santa Clara therefore followed a director plan process for parks and recreation. It took us about 24 to 30 months to complete it. During this process, we identified the need for 18 dedicated pickleball courses. We have 6 shared-use courses, which means that we need at least 12 new courses. This is to follow the current population of Santa Clara and to respect the level of service based on national averages according to the number of residents. And as for tennis, we have 35 tennis courses. and this same plan recognized that we had to reach 38. These two figures, reflecting the objectives of the city of Santa Clara, indicate that by 2030, it would be ideal to reach these totals. So, 18 pickleball courses dedicated and 38 tennis courses. It is therefore this need that has been established and identified for the city of Santa Clara. We then examined our 47 existing park sites. We have 47 parks in the city of Santa Clara and we use industrial standards, the American Planning Association having begun to establish standards for the implementation of pickleball throughout the country. And if you have followed the news, you will see communities launching and installing pickleball fields and sometimes having to remove them because of neighbors' complaints. This is why this site search was a very important part of this process. It also provided us with evaluation criteria. Is the space accessible? Excuse me. According to the American Disability Act, is there a geographical distribution and retreats in relation to residential areas? Part of the planning research indicates that a conditional use area for pickleball fields, located at 250 feet, 76 meters, residential properties, will help to reduce sound damage. So, these uses. Conditional will help us to Construire ces installations si nous imposons des conditions, comme peut-être limiter le jeu à certains horaires, par exemple de 8h à 20h, ou des restrictions d'éclairage, comme seulement durant la journée. Il existe aussi des solutions comme des clôtures acoustiques qui commencent à se répandre, ou des parts-vent dotées de panneaux acoustiques. There are also new rackets and balls produced that generate less noise, thus allowing to reduce the noise during the game. But the key point to remember is that a conditional use area is located at 250 feet of all residential property limits. And with that, you still have some game conditions. The right zone requires a retreat of 800 feet in relation to residential properties. The land can function under normal conditions. There will be no restrictions. The objective of the project would be to identify locations and offer practical and equitable access to the pickleball while minimizing the impact on the rivers. This is the framework that we used to examine the 45 or 47 sites. In doing so, we have identified three sites. It's really small. I beg your pardon, but what makes this obvious is where we are with our retreats. Is it an existing site? Does it already have land? The three locations identified for a more in-depth assessment that could meet the objectives of our project include Montague Park, a park located in the north. Two tennis courses have recently been added and the coating has been redone. There is, and I will move on to the map of this one. And then Jenistrand, which is in a way at the border between Santa Clara and Cupertino, there are two courses there. Hum, and if it was converted, it would give us six new pickleball courses. Hum, and again, that would represent a deficit, wouldn't it, for the tennis players community, hum, if these measures were taken. And then in Central Park, hum, we have the 8 courses, hum, on the side of Patricia Drive of the park, but then, e, near the community center, as you identified it this evening, there are 2 courses there, where there are 6 courses of Pickleball for shared use. Hum, for the moment, these are not dedicated courses, but if they were to become, hum, we could get 6 courses dedicated to this place. So, hum, the action proposed tonight and a part of the evaluation that we are going to address, we are going to ask you for your pros and cons concerning these, hum, courses. We are going to examine them individually. Hum, Central Park should, hum, consider the conversion and, or the installation of new pickleball courses. Hum, same thing for Montague, should consider the conversion and, or the installation, hum, of new pickleball courses. Et je dirais qu'au moment où nous commençons à recueillir vos commentaires, la remarque faite à propos de la disponibilité des éclairages devrait être quelque chose que nous notons ce soir dans ce processus d'évaluation. So, once again, this is just a Santa Clara map to help you, if you don't know where it is, hum, place is currently. Hum, Montague Park, hum, where are the existing courses, they are on the cruise. The rest of the equipment of the park, there are a few picnic areas nearby. There is parking in the street and the toilets of this installation are on the other side of the park. Jenny Strand, once again in a neighborhood, there is a parking in the street. It is adjacent to the Expressway Central. Where is the 101? I think it's 101. And there, the toilet building is quite close, and then Central Park is adjacent to the community center of leisure. And the Central Park school. We will therefore review these elements one by one. We are going to ask you to go to the cat now. et nous allons vous demander de saisir. Nous allons demander cela un par un afin que nous puissions noter cela proprement, mais nous allons passer en revue vos pours. Quels sont les avantages de Avoir du pickleball ici et, ou, hum, la conversion dédiée et, ou, hum, des cours de pickleball supplémentaires ici à Genistrand. On the map, you will see that the blue line represents the conditional use area. Jenny Strand is 75 meters away from the private properties on the north side. There is a large frame indicating the potential location. This is therefore the area that would be considered if the community wanted to use the Jenny Strand Park as a potential site for the Pickleball. Allez-y, parlez-nous des points positifs de ce site. Tout le monde, essayez de participer dans le chat. Il semble que 40 personnes y participent actuellement. Dites-nous ce que vous en pensez. Est-ce une bonne idée? Ensuite, nous clôturerons la liste des points positifs pour demander vos avis sur les contraintes ou les points négatifs de ce site. Vous pouvez donc commencer à y réfléchir dès maintenant. Angelica, when it starts to slow down, let me know and we'll move on. Do you want me to ask a few questions that have been raised while people are participating? Of course, okay. A question was asked about the fact that the investigation only focused on pickleball and tennis. Are we open to the idea of considering basketball or football fields as potential extension sites?

Nous sommes ouverts à l'examen des surfaces de terrains durs existantes. Pour ce qui est des autres options, vous pouvez les indiquer dans les commentaires. Nous les noterons comme des idées à explorer plus en détail.

Une autre question. Avons-nous une répartition du temps montrant quels terrains sont utilisés pour le tennis et lesquels pour le pickleball?

Le seul endroit où le pickleball est actuellement pratiqué formellement, avec des filets installés par Lifetime Activities, est Central Park. Le centre pour seniors pourrait-il être un site potentiel pour des terrains de pickleball?

S'agit-il du celui du parc Frémont? Dans cette analyse, nous parlons de terrains en extérieur. Le centre pour seniors ne dispose pas de gymnases. Lorsque la ville procèdera à sa rénovation, si l'espace et les fonds permettent la création d'un gymnase, des terrains de pickleball en intérieur pourraient être envisagés, mais ce processus se concentre sur la conversion ou la construction de nouveaux terrains en extérieur. Dernière question. Tous les nouveaux terrains seront-ils soumis au système de réservation Lifetime, sans accès libre ou gratuit ?

Cela n'a pas encore été décidé. Good question, note this question in hum, in the comments as well, please. It had already appeared the other night. We know that if you have dedicated areas, hum, at Pickleball, hum, they should be accessible to the community. Just as we have land on reservations and others in free access, right? So, from the point of view of the city, we are considering something similar for the community. Very well, let's move on to Jenistrand. Hum, what would be the problems or disadvantages of using the Jenistrand park, hum, either for a conversion, or, hum, to build additional pickleball fields here? Do you want me to read them? Of course, Sil, Silo, let's not read them yet. Let's not read them yet, assuming that everyone can see them. Of course, we're still talking about Genistrand. That's right. Yes, okay. Are they still coming? Our concerns about Genistrand? The flow has slowed down. Okay. D'autres idées sur Jenny Strand, hum, concernant les terrains. Vous pouvez également les ajouter ici. D'accord. Très bien, nous allons passer au deuxième site ici. Alors, allez-y, préparez votre et si vous pensez à autre chose en examinant ces autres sites, n'hésitez pas à continuer à l'écrire dans le chat. Nous voulons vraiment recueillir tous vos commentaires et réflexions. Je vais demander au personnel de résumer quelques concepts généraux pour Jenny Strand pendant que nous passons au suivant. Donc, après, nous, nous reviendrons sur Jenny Strand après avoir suivi ce processus pour chacun d'entre eux. D'accord. Donc, le site suivant est Montague. Au parc Montague, c'est Delacruze, sur l'avenue Delacruze. Il y a deux terrains de tennis dédiés ici. Il y a un espace identifié pour un emplacement de pickleball proposé. Il serait à 640 pieds des propriétés privées à l'ouest et à environ 280 pieds des propriétés privées à l'est. Et donc, cela offre un peu plus d'opportunités, hum, en raison, hum, de la nature de son emplacement, hum, et il y a potentiellement de l'espace dans le parc ici pour, hum, construire de nouveaux terrains. Hum, mais encore une fois, aucun d'entre eux n'est dans la bonne zone pour le pickleball, jusqu'à présent. Oui, donc nous sommes toujours à 640 pieds. So don't hesitate to tell us what you consider as an advantage or why this site could work, hum, and we can also add an inconvenience, hum, why it wouldn't work. I try to classify them by category so that when taking notes or rereading them, it is obvious that it is a positive or negative point. So, if you note advantages and disadvantages at the same time, you can add a sign so that we know if it is a plus or a minus, or something like that. But we really want to note what you think of Montague Park as a potential site. What are the advantages of this site? We will note them, and I really like the way you did it, Angélique. Are there any questions that have been raised about the Montague site? Let's take them, if there are any questions. Okay, there was a clarification question, and we will probably address it too, regarding your mention of the conversion of concrete zones. What does that mean exactly? Certain municipalities have added tracks on outdoor basketball fields for the pickleball. People can bring their own nets and there are hours reserved for pickleball and others for basketball only. If it's something that interests the community, the city can look into it. We are looking at where there are concrete areas or basketball fields or additional lines could be added, but again, we would use the same criteria, with a retreat of at least 85 meters, although 240 meters is preferable.

Another comment suggested, since the need for pickleball fields is high, to take advantage of the new development projects of the city to integrate them.

You are absolutely right. Damon, do you want to answer this question?

Yes, I would say that the difficulty with the new projects is that, when they provide parks near or on the same terrain, the proximity of the homes immediately poses a problem in relation to the distance of retreat we are talking about. Il y a un projet immobilier qui envisage d'inclure des terrains de pickleball. En tant que service technique, lorsque nous intervenons dans la phase où les promoteurs doivent fournir un parc ou des frais compensatoires, nous encourageons toujours les promoteurs à intégrer des équipements comme le pickleball, car nous savons que c'est nécessaire. So, as mentioned, there is a particular project that comes at the angle of Pruneridge and Santhamos, adjacent to the golf course, where they consider pickleball courts in the context of their design, because this corresponds to the image of their residential complex near a golf course, where they already have other tennis equipment for the entire complex. Donc, quand c'est possible, nous impliquons les promoteurs et voyons cela comme une opportunité. C'était une bonne question. Merci.

Oui. Merci beaucoup. Bien, passons aux inconvénients de ce site si ce n'est pas déjà fait, Angélique. Si quelqu'un dans la réunion peut lister ses points négatifs, nous serons heureux de répondre à toute autre question pendant ce temps, alors que nous continuons d'étudier Montague Park comme site potentiel. Y a-t-il d'autres questions, Angélique? Non, c'est bon. D'accord. Très bien. Comment avancent les points négatifs? Ils sont, eux, nombreux. D'accord. Des deux côtés. D'accord. Nous les notons et nous les partagerons une fois cette partie de la réunion terminée. D'accord. C'est très bien. C'est très bien. Nous saurons quand le rythme ralentira et nous passerons à la suite. Nous avons encore un site à examiner. Yes, it's starting to slow down. Very good. So once again, don't hesitate to come back to Jenny Strand or Montague as other ideas come to mind. E. Also indicate any other park in the city of Santa Clara that you would like to ask us about. We will be happy to share everything that is envisageable for these sites. Okay. Let's move on to Central Park. In Central Park, the fields that are on the side of the Community Recreation Center or on the side of Kylie, this blue line again indicates the perimeter of the site where there are six existing pickleball fields. There are about 550 feet of private property in the west and about 760 feet of private property in the east. Once again, this is not the perfect site. However, we mentioned last week that the crossing of four very common roads on Kaili Boulevard serves as a good acoustic buffer and attenuation measure. We have been playing pickleball on this site for months, even a few years now. Hum, we have not received any complaints for sound damage on this site, so it is certainly a site to take into account. As mentioned previously, if these existing parks become dedicated, they will then be accessible to the public at any time and will no longer be reserved for tennis. You could tell us what are the advantages of this site, then we will do as previously by discussing your reservations regarding this location. So let's start with the advantages of Central Park, what should we do here? I would really like to have your opinion. Quelques personnes ont mentionné d'autres sites que nous n'avions pas abordés, notamment Maywood, Bowers et Earl Carmichael.

Très bien, Bowers et Earl.

Oui, je précise que ni Maywood ni Carmichael ne respectent nos critères de distance. Bowers was not. We had not considered many parks devoid of existing sports equipment, but we will re-evaluate them all during a final examination. But it's a good remark, Bowers has potential, the more I think about it. There is a school on one side and another on the other side. There are many houses along a street and others in the back, in the southern corner. But yes, we will review the parks that do not have existing sports equipment to ensure that we include or exclude these fields depending on the distance and retreats.

Yes, a question has been raised. Dedicated fields mean permanent nets left in place? Yes, absolutely. Just like tennis is currently dedicated. The nets would remain in place?

Yes. Did the city discuss with the schools to see if there are possibilities of joint use?

Yes, Damon, do you want to fill in?

You have the answer. You know the answer. Okay.

We are in regular communication with schools about joint use. Currently, the city has a joint use agreement for Booker after class hours and the weekend. A major construction project is also underway to install lighting on Booker's courses. This would be a real advantage for the community as the winter months approach, allowing more people to play tennis at Booker during the evening when the light is necessary. And I'm not sure we'll be able to access it in the morning because it's a school site, but we'll certainly be able to play later in the evening. Nous sommes également en discussion avec le district scolaire au sujet des cours de Wilcox. Il y a 7 cours à Wilcox, clôturés et séparés du reste de l'école. Il faudrait des ressources financières pour soutenir l'entretien et les infrastructures, et il faudrait aussi trouver une solution pour les sanitaires. Il n'y a pas de sanitaire sur place, mais c'est une possibilité que nous étudions, et nous espérons continuer à bien collaborer avec le district scolaire pour offrir un accès public à certaines de leurs installations. Excellente question. Les cours de pickleball sont petits, une évaluation a-t-elle été faite sur les propriétés municipales non récréatives? Les propriétés municipales non récréatives. Nous avons fait des recherches dans les parcs.

Nous avons envisagé. Nous n'avons aucune propriété qui réponde au type de. En fait, l'un des parcs présentés possède à la fois un terrain utilitaire et un parc adjacent. Mais même si l'on construisait dans l'espace utilitaire non aménagé, cela ne nous permettrait pas d'obtenir la distance nécessaire. So, we do not propose this solution. But we took into account all the properties belonging to the city. In addition, we examine properties that we do not own. We therefore have the potential to buy and build pickleball courts or other park facilities in various parts of the city. We work with a real estate agency to identify properties to sell where we would not be faced with so many neighborhood or housing constraints. Rather in the central areas in the Nordics, where it is more about mixed development. Where, if we built pickleball fields, they would not necessarily be adjacent to homes. But that's a good question.

Yes, that's a good question. Let's consider building new tennis courses? I don't see that in the studies.

I would say that depending on the evolution of the pickleball, if there is a conversion or a new one, we will have to evaluate the balance and the impact on tennis. Nous savons que nous devons atteindre le chiffre de 38. C'est l'objectif. Et nous devons atteindre le chiffre de 18. Nous continuerons donc à travailler sur les deux sports. Nous savons que les deux sports sont extrêmement populaires. Parfois, quand les communautés travaillent sur ce problème, c'est facile parce que le tennis est devenu moins populaire mais ce n'est pas le cas à Santa Clara. Tennis is just as popular as the pickleball and has a longer history in Santa Clara. We have been receiving requests for the pickleball for years now, and we have finally reached the stage of the park and leisure director plan where we can start this process to really look into it. It is therefore an exciting period for Santa Clara, it is certain.

Two other questions have arisen. Can you explain why or if Lifetime will control the use of its courses in the future? Et est-ce pour toujours?

Bonne question. Eux donc, si nous obtenons des cours dédiés, eux des terrains de pickleball, eux ils devront être accessibles au public. Eux tout comme Earl Carmichael est accessible au public et sans programme fixe.

E ensuite, la question suivante portait sur d'éventuelles discussions avec le Mission College pour intégrer des terrains de pickleball pour l'enseignement et l'usage communautaire.

Oui, cela a été évoqué la semaine dernière. Le pickle. Eux ils n'ont aucun terrain actuellement. Ils n'ont pas non plus de tennis. Eux donc, eux nous serions ravis s'ils utilisaient une partie de leurs propriétés excédentaires pour en installer, et nous aurons donc certainement cette conversation avec eux comme option. C'est une excellente idée. D'autres questions ? D'accord. Sommes-nous passés aux inconvénients concernant Central Park ? D'autres inconvénients concernant la conversion ou la nouvelle construction à Central Park ?

Je pense que… Autant de réponses ont été ajoutées dans le chat que nous avons pu en saisir. D'accord. Super. Très bien. Faisons un récapitulatif. Richard, can you give us a recap of Genistrand? What are some of our selling points?

Yes, I think let's start with the advantages of Genistrand. I think a lot of people were quite enthusiastic about this space that has potential. We had a comment indicating that they were close to non-residential structures, because of course, Genistrand is close to the highway and Apple as well. There is therefore a potential for noise attenuation and they are close to non-residential structures. Il y a aussi l'espace. Je pense que beaucoup de commentaires ont mentionné l'espace potentiel. Donc, les inconvénients, le stationnement. Je pense que nous sommes bien conscients que le parking est assez petit à cet endroit. C'est donc un gros inconvénient. Bien sûr, le bruit est aussi un problème car c'est assez proche des maisons, mais il n'y a pas non plus d'éclairage au parc Jenny Strand.

D'accord. Great, very good. The community, do you have anything else to add on Genistrand? You can add it in the chat in case we missed it. They are the general comments on Genistrand. Okay, let's help, darling.

Ready for the next one?

Ready.

Let's go. Very good. Monica, tell us what we think about it.

Yes, it's a good location, a lot of space available, as we can see on our large rectangle here. And it's a good place because some comments mentioned that there are not many pickleball fields in the north, so it would serve the northern area of ​​Santa Clara. In addition, within the park, it is also a good distance from the neighbors. Among the disadvantages, once again, there is not enough parking. And the other comment concerned the management of pickleball and tennis in this area, so ... Okay.

Very good, great. Any other community comments on Montague? Please put them in the chat so that we are sure to record them. We love that people participate in this way. And again, we will use your comments to create a FAQ and put this recording on our website along the process. Very good, let's move on to Central Park. Yes. What do we think?

The positive points are, in fact, the first comment I read about the distance from the homes and the fact that there are already existing courts and that there have not been many complaints related to the noise. The potential to have eight pickleball courts near the community center and some of the disadvantages are that they did not want to remove tennis courses. Et un commentaire que j'ai trouvé intéressant était, si des terrains devaient être créés, quel espace du parc serait sacrifié ?

MHM. D'accord. Bien.

Très bien.

Autre chose sur Central Park de la part de notre communauté ? Si quelque chose vous vient à l'esprit et que vous devez le signaler, nous voulons ces commentaires. Nous voulons vos commentaires. Very good. Thank you all for your participation. Excellent comments, excellent questions. We love that. That was really very, very useful. We took note of your questions. So, that concludes our session. We want to inform you of our next steps. Gohan, if you can display the QR code here to give us your email address.

There will be a link in the

Oh, a link in the chat. Sorry, a link will be added in the chat. You can open it, give us your email address, and if you want to stay informed of this process as we move forward, we will send you an email when we move on to the next step. Nous prévoyons de pouvoir partager les résultats de ce processus et les recommandations potentielles lors de la réunion de la Commission des parcs et loisirs en novembre, puis nous espérons présenter une recommandation au Conseil municipal entre février et mars concernant l'emplacement et, nous l'espérons, la conception, qu'il s'agisse d'une conversion ou d'une nouvelle construction. Voilà donc les deux moyens si vous souhaitez continuer à poser des questions et rester informé. Le personnel peut-il mettre dans le chat l'adresse du service client-professeur, afin que vous puissiez continuer à envoyer par e-mail vos commentaires et questions sur ce processus au fur et à mesure de vos réflexions? Nous vous sommes extrêmement reconnaissants de votre participation ce soir. C'était vraiment une excellente soirée pour vous écouter et vous voir ce soir. S'il y a des questions, des réflexions ou des commentaires de dernière minute, nous ferons un dernier tour avant de clore la session pour ce soir. Alors merci à tous. Merci à tous d'être présents. Merci. Y a-t-il d'autres questions auxquelles nous devrions essayer de répondre? Goubar nous quitte, semble-t-il.

Merci à tous.

Merci à tous d'être présents ce soir. Merci pour votre temps. C'est très, très important. Qu'en est-il de l'ancien terrain de golf de Santa Clara? Le terrain de golf de Santa Clara est prévu pour le projet associé. Ce projet est actuellement en attente. As for the golf course, there is a little activity on site. They are starting to move the land, but these courses have been unused for more than 10 years now and they are no longer in very good condition. Trees are growing through it at the moment. The city no longer controls this terrain. C'est un dossier difficile. Cependant, nous avons bien du golf pour les résidents à Senival. Donc, si vous résidez à Santa Clara et que vous voulez jouer au golf, vous pouvez aller à Santa Clara ou à Senival, et ils vous appliqueront les tarifs résidents. Merci beaucoup pour ces commentaires. Euh, peut-être sur gazon. Si, s'ils commencent à jouer au pickleball sur gazon, ce serait génial. E, tout comme nous jouons au volet sur gazon. Alors, merci beaucoup à tous. Je pense que nous allons conclure notre réunion. E, je vous remercie tous de participer à ce processus. E, et continuez à vous tenir informés. E, au fil de cet hiver. Merci à tous. Passez une bonne soirée.

Bonne nuit.