Flower Mound seeks input on potential tennis center
Until Sunday, the ball is in Flower Mound inhabitants' court.
They have up to that point to tell the town how they feel about a potential tennis community.
The town of Flower Mound has delivered a study that requests that inhabitants share their considerations about tennis and pickleball needs and on a potential tennis place in the town. Questions incorporate whether inhabitants are keen on tennis or pickleball, which kind of open courts the town needs a greater amount of and when occupants would utilize such an office whenever developed.
The overview comes as a component of a "Tennis Center Feasibility Study," which fills in as a "initial phase" in choosing if such an office is likely for Flower Mound.
As per the town site, the review will give data to decide the size and conveniences that would be remembered for the conceivable office just as task costs, working financial plans and the monetary effect.
During an Aug. 18 local gathering in regards to the task, Parks and Recreation Director Chuck Jennings said that if a tennis community would be upheld, "Stage 2" would include a site examination and theoretical plan. Jennings said the expert had been approached to take a gander at the Dunham Ranch Recreational Area, Leonard and Helen Johns Community Park and Trotter Park.
Jennings said the last report is scheduled for show to the Parks Board and Town Council in mid 2022.
In the event that the review shows a middle would be upheld and if the Flower Mound Town Council guides town staff to push ahead, plan on the middle would occur at the soonest in monetary year 2021-2022, and development would happen the following financial year, as per a Q&A report given by the town from the August gathering.
"A subsidizing source would likewise not really settled for the development," the record states.
The conversation about tennis offices in the town has gone on for quite a long time, and in 2017 during a conversation about discovering land for the middle, Jennings said 12 courts, in addition to conveniences and land buying, could cost $6-7 million.
During the Aug. 18 gathering, different inquiries revolved around whether Lewisville ISD school courts could be utilized for play.
"Tragically, this isn't a Flower Mound choice," the Q&A record read. "We are working with Lewisville ISD to decide whether an open play understanding is a feasible arrangement."
The town presently has two openly open court areas through its parks and diversion framework: Glenwick Park has one court, and there are four courts at Leonard and Helen Johns Community Park.
Inhabitants should take the study, accessible at https://bit.ly/3mui8nu, by Sunday.
The public can likewise give input on Oct. 7 during a 6:30 p.m. Parks Board meeting, the town has said. The board meets at Flower Mound Town Hall, 2121 Cross Timber Road.
