to the editor: Staff writer Hannah Fry's article about Carmel-by-the-Sea banning pickleball on its public tennis courts quotes someone saying, “Pickleball is the first major noise pollution to hit the suburbs” (“Wealthy California coastal town bans pickleball, saying it 'turned into a madhouse'” November 26). But what about lawn mowers, leaf blowers, and those cars with fancy engines that go like they're going 100 mph when they're going 15?
We have tried to ban gas leaf blowers because of their emissions and because electric ones are quieter. But the gas leaf blowers keep going, yard after yard, day after day, sometimes blowing and making noise to blow a single wet leaf from the front yard onto the road.
I wish you all luck convincing everyone (pickleball players, neighbors, and drivers) that unnecessary noise makes any moment much worse than it needs to be. Let's be thankful for a moment of tranquility and make more of it.
Dana Cairns Watson, Los Angeles
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to the editor: You can't play pickleball without picking up a racket.
Michael Galbraith, Lynwood
