The incessant pop-pop-pop emanating from America’s rapidly multiplying pickleball courts has brought on a nationwide scourge of unneighborly clashes, petitions, calls to the police and lawsuits, with no solution in sight.
Pickleball balls at the Walter Reed Community Center in Arlington, Va., on June 11, 2023.
“I thought maybe I could live with it, maybe it would fade into the background,” she said of the clamor, which began around the height of the coronavirus pandemic and now reverberates through her home, even when her windows are closed. “But it never did.” “Living here is hell,” said Debbie Nagle, 67, whose gated community in Scottsdale, Arizona, installed courts a few years ago.
The sounds were even dissected last month at Noise-Con 2023, the annual conference of North American noise control professionals, which featured an opening-night session called “Pickleball Noise.”The same story, the same jarring sound, has echoed across American communities like rolling thunder.
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