closed #184927
Parks & Rec Buildings
1400 W RCA Park DR
- Case Date:
- 8/7/2023
The net on court 2 of the pickleball courts is damaged and unusable. Looks like a pretty easy fix.
The net on court 2 of the pickleball courts is damaged and unusable. Looks like a pretty easy fix.
IU students are returning which will put even more pressure on the RCA pickleball courts. There are six permanent courts there (one with broken net) The Bloomington Pickleball Club has offered to put temporary lines on the tennis courts to add 6 more courts. There are a number of temp chalk and paint products out there that will do the trick short term. The lines will not affect the ability to play tennis (though no one really plays tennis here) The BPC has temp nets we can put out at least on weekends to help with the crowds. I suggest the city also adopt some court rules for how the courts get shared when there is a large crowd. Let’s get ahead of this before it becomes a bigger problem in a few weeks!
shelter in Park ridge East Park has a bent corner roof with exposed roof
With the hot weather recently we've been taking our small children to the switchyard park playground earlier in the morning to beat the heat. It's really baffling as to why the restrooms here don't open until 10:00 AM. There are a lot of families on the playground before then that would really appreciate restroom access for small children.
Just in case no one else has notified you, the girls' bathroom on the west side of the park has a toilet malfunctioning (flushing continuously).
Our home, at 1016 S. Manor Road, is directly across Woodlawn from the Bryan Park Pool. There are security lights on the west side of the pool which point directly towards our house, illuminating our bedroom even with the shades down. It would see far more neighborly if the lights were on the east side of the pool, facing deeper into the park rather than into our neighborhood. Is this something you can remedy?
There is no rental information for Switchyard Park on the facilities rental page. I also don't see anything about the Twin Lakes clubhouse, which used to be rentable. https://bloomington.in.gov/parks/rentals/facilities
Open the bathrooms to more than just park employees
Is Indiana Red Basketball affiliated with the City? The Coach, Rob Norris holds practices at the Twin Lakes complex. He charged $700 per player for travel basketball. Because of Covid-19, we only had two practices and no tournaments. He has refused to give a pro-rated refund. He is asking to apply the monies toward next year, or give a donation to Indiana Red. This seems dishonest to me!
We've been bothered recently during our regular evening visits to Switchyard Park to see a significant vagrant population who are smoking, drinking, and we're pretty sure we just witnessed a drug deal at the park pavillion. The police, so conveniently located in the park, need to actually be out patrollimg it!