This proposal expands the supply of volleyball courts and preserves most of the peak demand supply on weekdays and weekends for free play. Most peak supply for OB courts and SMB courts and all Bonita Cove courts is dedicated to free play in this proposal. It primarily allocates new courts in Mariner's Point and Fiesta Island to accept permit reservations.
This proposal allocates a significant number of post-only (bring your own net) courts to inventory for reservation by schools, which are highest priority group in request process. If schools plan ahead and request courts prior to season deadline, we can expand our semi-permanent inventory to meet growing demands.
Our proposal adds courts in Mariner's Point and Fiesta Island designed to support this type of organization, and the pricing is lower for these lower demand areas, allowing better flow of proceeds to your cause.
Our proposal specifically addresses this demand and enables the event schedule that was in place before this proposal to continue in the same locations. If demand expands further, CBVA could use Fiesta Island or add more dates to OB and SMB based on this proposal.
This proposal specifically sets aside a portion of the permit fees toward sand maintenance to create a budget for this effort.
This proposal charges higher fees for equipment that needs to be maintained, with the highest fees for SMB. This in combination with the specific designation that fees be put toward net maintenance should create sufficient budget to replace nets as needed.
This proposal expands supply to address the growing market for for-profit leagues in San Diego. It also protects free play users and optimizes equipment use by eliminating the gap between league setup and players actually using the courts.
This proposal allocates space in Mariner's Point and Fiesta Island for paid clinics and lessons in a place that doesn't take away peak supply from free play users.
By submitting your request for each season by the deadline, we can account for the demand and expand semi-permanent courts as needed. If demand exceeds our ability to meet it by expanding supply, we'll have to use a lottery or some other mechanism for users in the same category.
This proposal creates two deadlines each year - one for season beginning in Jan and another for season beginning in Sep. It creates transparency around how many nets and which days can be reserved by getting a permit.
As volleyball (and other beach sports like tennis and footvolley) expands, we're in dire need of additional supply. We can hardly quantify the supply addition we need without some process and requests and transparency. Too many interested parties want the courts for it to just amount to first come first serve.
We appreciate the concern, and this proposal limits for-profit endeavors and primarily relocates them to inland areas, not oceanfront. Beach athletics are an important part of society and beach use, so we want to make room for the activity without unfair detriments to other beach stakeholders.
By creating transparency around permit / court requests and communicating with interested parties like schools, charities, and others, we can get the requests in order and match demand for courts with supply (expanding supply where feasible). If one organization has broad support from volleyball community in creating events that people love, we should strive to expand supply to provide that organization courts (as long as it doesn't take away from peak supply used by free play community members).
Ultimately, Parks and Recreation holds power to issue permits.