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FORT LAUDERDALE — Pickleball players might love the idea of having 42 courts just a stone’s throw from their neighborhood. But that’s not the crowd that showed up at a City Hall meeting on Tuesday, August 22, to blast the elected leaders of Fort Lauderdale — even though only two of the five on the dais were the ones who approved a $20 million project that will bring an 8-acre pickleball .
“It’s like ping pong on steroids,” says one neighbor. A grassroots campaign is underway to block the deal from moving forward. But some say it’s a long shot.