Bucks County, PA
The County's own 2025 plan calls it "long-overdue maintenance" and identifies $26 million of it. We're asking for a sliver to go to the two main public tennis courts in a county of 645,000.
In 2025 Bucks County released its first comprehensive parks plan in over 50 years. That plan identifies $26 million in deferred maintenance across the system. It calls "landscape maintenance" the #1 priority need raised in every single community engagement event. It recommends a new County bond to fund the catch-up.
We're asking for a tiny sliver of that $26 million to go to the two main public tennis courts:
Hundreds of players are in regular rotation. Thousands of court-hours every season. Players drive in from Newtown, Yardley, Bristol, Bensalem, Warminster, and Doylestown because there isn't much else like them.
And yet. Net center straps are missing or broken at both sites. Frosty Hollow's surface is caked with grit and moss that haven't been touched in years. Core Creek sits between a wide-open field and busy Woodbourne Road, where wind whips through on most afternoons — and there are no wind screens. Every private tennis club in Bucks County has them. Basic facility hygiene. The public courts have none.
We're not asking for the moon. We're asking for the basics the County itself already identified.
Maintenance was the #1 priority raised in every community engagement event during the County's own planning process. The more players and neighbors who sign, the harder it is to keep these courts at the bottom of the $26 million list. Now.
Two minimums and one stretch. None of the minimums are expensive. All of them are overdue.
Minimum — Core Creek
Install wind screens on the perimeter fencing. Open field on one side, Woodbourne Road on the other — the wind makes the courts barely playable on bad days. There are none currently.
Replace the net center straps. Missing or broken on most courts.
Minimum — Frosty Hollow
Power-wash the courts. Built-up grit, moss, and surface dirt make footing unsafe — and it hasn't been done in years.
Replace the net center straps. Same problem as Core Creek.
Stretch — if the budget is there
Full resurfacing of all courts at both Frosty Hollow and Core Creek. This is what the courts actually deserve. We'd take it.
One owner, one petition
Frosty Hollow Park and Core Creek Park are both owned by Bucks County, according to the County's own 2025 Parks Plan (page 106). Day-to-day sport-facility maintenance at Frosty Hollow is coordinated with Middletown Township, but the courts, the fences, and the long-overdue fixes are County responsibilities.
So this petition goes to one place: the Bucks County Department of Parks & Recreation — whose own administrative offices are at Core Creek Park, fifty yards from one set of these courts.
Takes 30 seconds. Your address stays private and never appears online.
You've added your name.
Now comes the most important part.
One text = 5 more signatures.
The fastest way to hit our goal is players telling players. Takes 10 seconds.
Text someone nowThe petition will be delivered to the Bucks County Department of Parks & Recreation, owner of both parks.
Players and neighbors who have added their names (with permission).
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