Centennial’s half-year ban on new outdoor pickleball courts hasn’t been in effect for even a month and already there’s pushback from folks crazy about a sport that’s been growing like mad in Colorado. Jane Robbins, who serves as the pickleball manager at the Homestead in the Willows neighborhood in Centennial, said she is “disappointed and frustrated” by the city’s decision to temporarily halt the establishment of new outdoor courts within 500 feet of homes so that it can study noise impacts associated with the game. The city’s emergency moratorium, passed during a well-attended March 21 city council meeting and scheduled to expire at the end of September, scuttled plans this spring that Robbins and her pickleball-playing compatriots had to paint permanent lines for two courts on the hardtop of an existing tennis court in their neighborhood. A contractor had been lined up to do the work. They’ve been using painter’s tape to temporarily mark the dimensions of a pickleball court, where opponents face off with paddles and smack a perforated plastic ball over a net.

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