Loud Pickleball Games Mean New Rules for the Sport in Winter Park

Loud pickleball games mean new rules for the sport in Winter Park

New rules are coming for pickleball players in Winter Park.

Soothing or maddening? Winter Park adopts new Pickleball rules to address noise complaints

Like the sound of tennis, some people find the sound of players batting a pickleball back and forth – pop, pop, pop – to be soothing, while others may find it maddening. That has led the City of Winter Park to adopt new rules on pickleball courts to help alleviate noise complaints from those who live close to them.

Winter Park enacts stricter rules for private pickleball courts to address rising noise complaints

On August 27, the city commission unanimously approved regulations that raise the minimum distance between private courts and nearby homes from 20 feet to 150 feet.