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concerted and collaborative efforts across this industry to grow the sport," says TIA Executive Director Jolyn de Boer. " I cannot attend tonight's meeting concerning the construction of the 2 tennis courts and would like to strongly give my support to the new tennis construction project. We moved to Pleasanton twenty years ago and were impressed with the advanced urban planning and plans to grow the tennis facilities in the master plan. All of my 3 children took tennis lessons, actively played in high school tennis teams and both me and my wife are also avid tennis enthusiasts and plan to retire here playing tennis. There are few sports like tennis that allow the elderly to remain active. When we go to PTC we often see many tennis lessons for children and adults every time we are there and it confirms the article I have attached below citing that tennis continues to lead participation growth over all traditional sports. We attended the city council budgeting meeting when it was approved in a public forum and are dismayed how the project now faces cancellation due to local resident friction. If the project was in the master planning for decades one would think that the local residents were advised of potential future expansion over the course of time and certainly were given several months advanced notice to ease the surprise. The Lowe Family votes 5 in favor. Thank you for your consideration. Key Article – Tennis Participation is Increasing In the recently released US Sports, Fitness, and Recreation Participation Report from the Physical Activity Council (PAC) — a consortium of six sports, recreation, and outdoor trade associations — despite fluctuating participation trends among traditional sports, tennis continues to lead the pack in long -term participation growth, which is up 31% from 2000 -2012. The study, which is the nation's largest physical activity study covering a sample of more' an 40,000 , individuals in the U.S., shows tennis as one of only two sports with positive particiOttion growth duirin:"° the previous 12 years. Gymnastics, a distant second in terms of participation growth, up 5 %, is the only other traditional sport with positive growth over this period. Other "traditional" sports include: badminton, baseball, basketball, fishing, football, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, racquet, soccer, and softball. "The fact that tennis is one of only two traditional sports in the U.S. with positive growth over the past 12 years is a testament to tennis not only being a 'sport of a lifetime,' but also to the concerted and collaborative efforts across this industry to grow the sport," says TIA Executive Director Jolyn de Boer. "Since 1974 our industry and trade has come together to measure and impact change on this sport and the results of our joint efforts has led to tennis maintaining its lead among traditional sports participation growth over the past decade." <http: / /www. tennisindustry .org /cros /index.cfm/news /tennis- continues -to- lead - pack - among- traditional- sports -i n- participation-growth/> 2