Sign our open letter to City Council

Slow Motion Trainwreck

As all of you know, BTA and the rest of the tennis community have been trying for years to warn Boulder City government and the Parks and Rec of a slow-motion trainwreck coming our way in terms of public tennis court availability. For the last five years they have either tried to convince us there wasn’t an issue, downplayed the issue, or (finally) generated a study and several plans to address the issue. But no action. Meanwhile – surprise – the trainwreck is already here.

The fifteen courts at Rocky Mountain Tennis Center (RMTC) are history. The twelve CU South campus courts will be gone after this summer. Over the course of the last three years, the tennis playing community has lost six of the thirteen courts at our three public recreation centers to pickleball for every morning of the week. Competition for the few remaining public courts (especially with the Centennial Middle School and Fairview courts being out of commission) has reached critical mass.

An Open Letter

Clearly, a change of tactics is needed. So we’re upping the ante. Several members of the BTA Board, along with some former members of RMTC, have teamed up to spearhead a public action campaign. The first step will be posting a full page open letter to the Boulder City Council in the Daily Camera, signed by as many of the tennis community as possible. We aim to hold the powers that be accountable for the oversights of the past (such as no new tennis courts built in over twenty years) and the present (such as allowing the sole public/private site for indoor courts to be sold off, and for failing to support a replacement tennis center proposed east of town). And to “encourage” them to act on and fund the building of over twenty new tennis courts in the near future – including an indoor facility that their own Parks and Rec Department has proposed.

Sign the Letter and Donate for Publication

Of course, a full page in the Camera doesn’t come cheap, and that’s just the first step. So this tennis group (and we of the BTA Board) are asking you to help us in whatever way you can, either with the funding for the open letter, or by signing the Change.org petition supporting the campaign. Either way, your name will be added to the list of signees for the letter.

Please help out Boulder public courts. Use the link below, read the letter, check out your options for taking part, and take a stand for Boulder public tennis. Thanks!