Community celebrates 4-acre expansion of Centennial Center Park

BY TAYLER SHAW TSHAW@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Following months of construction, Centennial leaders and residents celebrated the completion of the Centennial Center Park’s 4-acre expansion project with live music, face painting, food trucks, yard games and local vendors. e celebration and ribbon-cutting ceremony for the park expan- sion coincided with the Centennial District 3 Summer Social on July 19, which was this year’s nal district summer social.

In March, the city council passed a sixmonth moratorium on new applications or approvals for outdoor pickleball courts within 500 feet of residential uses. is month, noise consultant Lance Willis, the principal acoustical engineer of Spendiarian & Willis Acoustics and Noise Control, turned in a study on the issue to the city: “Pickleball Noise Impact Assessment and Abatement Planning.” e study found the main concern for residents who live close to pickleball courts is the “popping” sound the hard plastic ball makes when it is struck by paddles. ose random, persistent sounds, described as “impulsive,” can create annoyance because they are “similar to sounds that contain important information about our environment such as footsteps, a door opening, a tap at the window, or speech,” the study said.

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