“We had the first graffiti at the skatepark,” he said. Nevertheless, Sorensen said it was new for the Ivins skatepark since it opened in November 2019. “ We got it down right away and the police are right on it,” Ivins Parks and Recreation Director Benny Sorensen told the Ivins City Council at their meeting Thursday. The grafitti was left sometime between July 30 and 31 but didn’t last long. Local skateboarder Andon Gentry practices his skating at the skate park at UNITY Park, Ivins, Utah, | Photo by Mori Kessler, St. In the meantime, Hart said the council will consider in a future meeting funding for the additional courts at the detention basin and Red Rock Canyon Park.IVINS - Skaters in Ivins had what park officials there called an unwelcome addition last weekend after a tagger left their mark at the UNITY Park skate park. However, he added the new regional park is at least five years away and is predicated on the acquisition of land from the Bureau of Land Management. The new regional park could include four to eight pickleball courts, according to Sorensen. One site in particular Ivins is looking at is a new regional park at the corner of Main Street and Old Dixie Highway 91 that, at 100 acres, would become the city’s largest at 8 times the size of Unity Park. Currently, we do not have any property where we can build a new park however, as we look to the future, we see two or three neighborhood parks and a community park being completed in the next two to 10 years,” Sorensen said. “Pickleball is something that we plan to include in our future parks. In the long term, Sorensen said an increase in pickleball fields will come from the creation of new parks that are presently in the planning and land acquisition stages. Sorensen said while the basin exists to take on runoff from flash floods, it can be cleaned after those rare incidents. The other possibility for pickleball courts is the detention basin at 400 South and 400 West directly to the west of Unity Park. Undated image of the detention basin at 400 South and 400 West, Ivins, Utah | Photo by Google Maps, St. Sorensen said the conversion would cost the city $50,000. Instead, Sorensen offered two short-term alternatives: Converting the existing sand volleyball court at Red Rock Canyon Park at 490 South and 720 East into a pickleball court. “I’m not a big fan of that,” Sorensen said. This would mean 25% less space for soccer but would add four pickleball courts – doubling the city’s existing number of courts.īut Sorensen said that shortchanges aficionados of one sport for another. One suggestion by some of the petitioners is to add more courts by using space allotted to soccer west of the tennis courts at Unity Park. You talk to skaters, we need more skate parks.” “If you talk to tennis people, you need more tennis courts. “It depends on who you talk to,” Sorensen said. The petition argues that the four existing courts are almost always utilized, causing long wait times or forcing residents to travel south to the courts in Santa Clara.ĭuring the March 3 meeting, Ivins Mayor Chris Hart asked Ivins Parks and Recreation Director Benny Sorensen if pickleball courts were the greatest need of the parks department. File photo of the Ivins City Easter Egg Hunt on the soccer fields at Unity Park, Ivins, Utah, Ap| Photo by Hollie Stark, St. The two other courts, which are only in use when basketball isn’t being played and portable nets are set up, are at 200 West and 400 South in Unity Park. The word “dedicated” refers to the fact that of the city’s four existing pickleball courts, two share a dual purpose as basketball courts and aren’t regulation size.īoth of the city’s regulation-sized pickleball courts are at Desert Rose Park at 260 Desert Rose Way. “The undersigned, concerned Ivins City residents, would like to see additional public ‘dedicated’ pickleball courts constructed in our city’s parks as a benefit to residents of all ages,” the petition reads. The petition was presented to the Ivins City Council at its most recent meeting on March 3. However, the head of Ivins’ parks said the space for additional courts is nearly non-existent at the city’s existing parks and it may be five years before the city adds additional park space that can accommodate such courts. George, Utah, J| Photo by Robert Hoppie,, St. File photo of pickleball at the Utah Summer Games, St. IVINS - A petition signed by more than 150 Ivins residents is asking the city’s leaders to construct more pickleball courts.
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