I don’t live in Chestnut Hill and I don’t play pickleball but I find this dispute fascinating. Some real gem quotes in here from both sides.

I think this is my favorite, for many reasons:

>”When people get upset about something placed in their neighborhood, it’s usually not pickleball but something like safe-injection sites that they don’t want — which I support, by the way,” said Deirdre Dingman, a professor at Temple University’s College of Public Health who plays pickleball at the courts and lives around the corner, undisturbed by the din.