Carmel City Council voted to permanently bounce the fast-growing sport <\/a>from within city limits earlier this month \u2014 a first-of-its kind move in the Golden State.<\/p>\n Frustrated residents complained that the \u201cpopping\u201d sound of the sport \u2014\u00a0 which has spiked in popularity<\/a> in recent years, especially among retirees\u00a0 \u2014 has been echoing through the seaside community and driving them nuts, according to sfgate.com.<\/a><\/p>\n So last month, the city council voted to temporarily ban pickleball from Forest Hill Park, the only space with public courts in the town.\u00a0<\/p>\n Council members Jeff Baron and Hans Buder then hatched a plan to require players to use \u201cquiet\u201d paddles and balls \u2014\u00a0 but residents fired back that folks aren\u2019t likely to follow those rules.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s gonna be a problem,\u201d Carmel resident Kimberly Edwards said at a city council meeting Nov. 4.<\/p>\n \u201cWho\u2019s going to enforce this? Am I going to have to hear a noise and then call the police?\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s an unrealistic proposition.\u201d<\/p>\n But devotees of the sport said a full-blown ban really puts them in a pickle.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you want to try it with the quiet ball, I think it\u2019s only fair to the players to give that a chance,\u201d pickleball player Barbara Lang fired back.<\/p>\n The city council ultimately voted unanimously in favor of extending the temporary ban and drafting legislation to create a permanent one.\u00a0<\/p>\n Opponents of the ban will have two more hearings to appeal the ban once it is created.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That\u2019s too much racket! A wealthy California town wants to ban pickleball because the constant thwack of balls…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[36893,7,9,8,1725,7496,3586],"class_list":{"0":"post-60992","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-bans","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-california-headlines","11":"tag-california-news","12":"tag-parks","13":"tag-sport","14":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Pickleball\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/pickleball-player-prepares-smash-ball-113642654.jpg\")
Carmel City Council voted to permanently bounce the fast-growing sport from within city limits earlier this month. pics721 \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n![\"pickleball](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/forest-hill-park-carmel-ca-115738639.jpg\")
Residents of Carmel complained that pickleball is too loud, so the city council banned the sport. John Terri Kratchmer \/ Facebook<\/p>\n