Courts and lots in Cleveland Heights.

Cleveland Heights is a streetcar suburb of old houses and tight streets, with Coventry Village, the Cleveland Heights-University Heights City Schools and a parks department that has been working through the pickleball question one park at a time. At Forest Hill Park the answer was the conversion we did: two tennis courts resurfaced and lined into four permanent pickleball courts, which a city progress report listed as complete.

It is the arithmetic most cities arrive at: two tennis courts make four pickleball courts, the pad, the fence and the drainage are already there, and the tennis players who are left keep the rest of the bank. A parks department with a tennis court nobody is using and a line of pickleball players waiting should read our article on conversions. Cleveland Heights is eight miles and about fifteen minutes from the yard.