Vancouver Park Board delays vote on pickleball facility

A park board commissioner cancelled his motion that would have created an indoor tennis and pickleball facility in Vancouver, called the Vancouver Racquet Centre.

The agenda for the Monday, Dec. 8, meeting says that the motion was “withdrawn by mover.”

The original proposal said that Vancouver is the municipality with the “lowest available indoor racquet courts in the region.”

At a meeting in November, the Vancouver Park Board asked the Vancouver Tennis Society (VTS) and the Vancouver Pickleball Association (VPA) to search for a suitable location for the facility.

“The proposal outlined covered courts which would accommodate eight tennis courts and twelve to sixteen pickleball courts,” the motion read.

Commissioner Scott Jensen tells 1130 NewsRadio that the motion is now postponed as staff are working on the proposal internally.

He expects that a report with findings will be released in the first quarter of 2026.

The VTS and the VPA assured the board that both organizations would be ready to fund the project.

The facility would include indoor tennis and pickleball courts.