Posts Tagged ‘Pickleball’
A Retirement Wealth Gap Adds a New Indignity to Old Age
Pictured, Iris Harrell and Gary O’Shaughnessy of Oakmont Village October 4, 2018 | The Wall Street Journal Jennifer Levitz | Photographs by Rachel Bujalski for The Wall Street Journal SANTA ROSA, Calif.—On a Saturday morning in retirement paradise, Ken Heyman stepped out to his front porch and found a brown paper bag. Inside was the chopped-off head of…
Read MorePromise & Commitment
As of 12/31/16, the CAC Pickleball Project costs totaled $138,005. The one day destruction of the site in April 2017 cost $29,619. Conversion of the East Rec.Courts will be at least $49,000. One estimate to restore the damaged area near the Central Pool was $30,000. The total costs to accommodate Pickleball in Oakmont are nearly…
Read MoreRecognition and Thanks
Dear Observer: Four years ago, the sitting board appointed a committee whose task was to was to find a location for pickleball courts. Since this Ad-Hoc Pickleball Committee consisted of only pickleball players or tennis players, neither of whom wanted to share courts, the only site considered was the CAC. During the ensuing years, over…
Read MoreZoning Administrator approves ERC court conversion
Today, April 19, the Zoning Administrator for the City of Santa Rosa approved the conversion of two East Rec. tennis courts to Multi-Use Sports Courts (6 Pickle Ball courts). This means that the Planning Dept., Fire Dept., Building Dept. and Zoning have all approved the Conditional Use Permit.
Read MorePlanning Dept. Schedules Pickleball Hearing
(Photo by Greg Gewalt) This coming Thursday could be the end of the line for Oakmont’s seemingly interminable quest to build a permanent pickleball facility. But then, the hearing before the zoning commissioner could wind up back in Santa Rosa’s bureaucratic maze. The hearing on Oakmont’s request for a conditional use permit to convert two ERC…
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