Residents urge Paradise Valley to regulate pickleball noise and re-evaluate license-plate reader contracts

During the call to the public, Terry Green Sterling and Jennifer DeVries addressed different community concerns.

Terry Green Sterling urged the council to use zoning tools to manage pickleball noise, citing a November 2025 American Planning Association article on best practices and asking the town to require significant setbacks and neighborhood notification for new courts. "The article lists best practices for amending existing zoning ordinances to regulate pickleball," Sterling told the council and provided copies of the article to staff for distribution.

Separately, Jennifer DeVries of the Maricopa County Libertarian Party urged the council to disclose deliberations held in the closed executive session about the towns automated license-plate readers and to end the ALPR contract. DeVries said Paradise Valley has operated plate readers since 2015 and called the program a dragnet that stores and shares plate reads across agencies, noting recent court decisions that limit broad searches of third-party-held location data. "Please make the decision public. Please end the contract," she said, warning of costs and liability examples from other jurisdictions.

Why it matters: Both comments raise public-policy questions the council can address through ordinance changes (pickleball setbacks, acoustic review) or by revisiting vendor contracts and policy on data retention and sharing for ALPRs.