‘Perpetual noise’: Kelowna, B.C. resident frustrated with pickleball court – Okanagan | 24CA News
It’s one of many fastest-growing sports activities within the nation and a rising ache for residents in a Kelowna, B.C. neighbourhood.
Shane Jamieson purchased her home in 2021, unaware of the pickleball courtroom in her neighbour’s yard.
But for over a yr, she says she has been coping with a continuing forwards and backwards between bylaw officers and close by pickleball gamers.
“We have spent an enormous amount of money, indeed our life savings. We have then discovered this perpetual noise — ‘tock, tock, tock’ noise — of pickleball,” mentioned Jamieson.
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Jamieson says this has change into a each day prevalence, with gamers making fairly a racket all hours of the day.
It’s prompted her to have her TV on more often than not, construct a shed and canopy one a part of her fence in an effort to dam out all of the noise.
“This is just for my mental health. I’m just trying just to not see the house next door,” she mentioned.
Jamieson says she tried to purpose along with her neighbours and finally turned to metropolis bylaw officers, lodging quite a few complaints in regards to the noise.
However, she says they haven’t finished a lot in her defence.
“This is a simple solution saying this is the law and they can enforce it. This noise is noisy. The city can say play, they can play pickleball on public courts,” Jamieson mentioned.
When bylaw officers obtain noise complaints they examine them first, akin to what time these offences occur and the reoccurrence.
“We do seek to confirm the details of the complaint and really try to educate, in this case, individual homeowners as well, on what the constraints are of the bylaw in place. Whether or not it’s something that we do investigate and or choose to enforce,” mentioned City of Kelowna bylaw supervisor Kevin Mead.
Mead says if the investigations decide there’s a bylaw infraction, they’ll difficulty tickets or fines. However, they do their finest to maintain issues civil between neighbours.
“The city does want to see neighbours, being neighbourly with each other and working with mutual respect amongst each other first. That’s really what our aim is and it’s a matter of maintaining some semblance of community standard amongst neighbours,” mentioned Mead.
Jamieson says she’s heard from her others within the neighbourhood as effectively, who’re pissed off with the noise.
She says she has nothing in opposition to her pickleball-playing neighbours, however the metropolis and the enforcement of its guidelines.
“My warning to anyone who’s wanting to buy a single residential home in Kelowna. Best beware because there is no recourse with bylaw,” Jamieson mentioned.
Global News went to the house with the pickleball courtroom for a response, however nobody answered the door.
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