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Pickleball courts, half courts, putting greens, fencing and lighting for Cedar Hills families, with the flat pad, walls and drainage a sloped bench lot needs.
“They leveled our yard and placed a pickleball court, patio, fire pit, and artificial grass. It looks great.”
“I will be using them for all of my landscape needs, a pleasure to work with!”
Pickleball and Sports Courts in Cedar Hills
A backyard court earns its keep in Cedar Hills. This is a town of families, and the kids stay outside till the streetlights come on. A pickleball court or a half court for basketball turns your yard into the place the whole street ends up on a summer night. The catch is the ground. Most lots on the bench tilt toward the valley, and a court has to be close to dead flat.
Getting a flat pad on a sloped lot means cutting one side and filling the other, and often a retaining wall on the low edge. Here, even a wall under 48 inches needs an installation permit, and anything over 4 feet needs an engineer's stamp. Fill under a court has to go down in thin, compacted layers, because a soft corner shows up first as a dead spot and then as a crack.
Placement matters too. Most lots carry a 5 foot easement along the edges, and court fencing and lights add to what the city and your HOA, if you have one, will want to review. We plan the court, the fence, the lighting and the drainage together, so the permit set is complete and the court drains off its low side instead of into the yard below.
Cedar Hills calls itself Utah's mile-high city, a family town on the bench at the mouth of American Fork Canyon where even a short retaining wall needs a permit, the secondary water is metered, and hillside lots in The Cedars and Canyon Heights follow their own grading rules.
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The Cedar Hills challenges
The filled side of a court pad is where trouble starts. If fill went in thick and loose, it keeps settling for a few seasons. The surface dips, water pools there after rain, and frost opens a crack right through the kitchen line. Compacting in lifts is slow, and it is the whole job.
A court is a big, hard surface. On a lot that drops toward the neighbor, all that runoff heads downhill fast. Without a swale or drain on the low edge, it erodes the slope or soaks the yard below. We plan where that water goes before the pad is even cut.
Court fencing, ball netting and lights often get added after the slab is poured. Then posts land in the easement, or the lights shine into a bedroom window next door. Placing them during design keeps them legal and keeps the peace with the neighbors.
In the H-1 Hillside zone, slopes of 30 percent or more must stay natural. That can rule out a full court on some lots in The Cedars or Canyon Heights. A half court, a putting green or a terraced pickleball pad may fit where a full court will not.
The J&H approach
We measure how much flat space you can really get and show you the options: full pickleball, half court basketball, a combo court or a putting green. Then we pick the one that fits without a wall bigger than it needs to be.
We strip topsoil, place and compact fill in thin lifts, then lay and compact road base before the slab. The slab gets just enough slope to shed water off one side. Post sleeves for nets and fencing go in before the pour, not after.
Walls, court, fence and lights go on one site plan with the setbacks and easement marked. We pull the installation permits, confirm current rules with the city and get HOA approval lined up first if your neighborhood has one.
What homeowners say
"We had a really big project (full lot project) and a crazy timeline, and Jackson and his team were awesome. They are very efficient, work hard to get things done quick, and the quality of their work is top-notch. Great company. Great guys. I would highly recommend them for any landscaping needs."
"Jackson and his crew did a phenomenal job on our back yard. I had a vision and they brought it to life. We had them do a retaining wall, grading, underground trampoline, sprinkler system, and sod. They met deadlines, communication was on point, and the whole crew was friendly.…"
"…The job was completed quickly without sacrificing quality, and the results exceeded our expectations. We would absolutely hire this team again and recommend them to anyone looking for landscaping help."
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