Kensington mayor resigns over pickleball court vote [Video]

KENSINGTON, P.E.I. –

A feud over proposed pickleball courts in Prince Edward Island has prompted a longtime mayor to throw in the towel.

Rowan Caseley says there was lots he still wanted to accomplish as mayor of Kensington, P.E.I., but he felt he had to resign Monday after the town council voted to build six pickleball courts Caseley says the community can’t afford.

He was mayor for about 10 years and a councillor for five years before that.

“As mayor, one of the things I’m required to do is defend the decision of council, and I couldn’t,” Caseley said in an interview Wednesday. “It just went totally against my principles.”

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He said his opposition is not meant as a critique of the local pickleball community, about a dozen of whom filled council chambers as the vote took place. The growing town simply has more pressing needs to tend …