Money OKd for Skateboard Areas
HUNTINGTON BEACH — Despite some residents’ opposition, the City Council on Monday night voted 6 to 1 to spend $23,190 in start-up funds for building public skateboard facilities in Edison and Murdy Community parks.
The two facilities, which would cost a total of about $77,000, would become the only public skateboard areas in Orange County.
The council earlier this year cracked down on skateboarders by banning them from commercial areas in the city. That action produced an outcry from skateboard users, who said the city was not doing anything to provide places for safe, legal skateboarding.
Ron Hagan, the city’s director of community services, said the skateboard facilities would be safe and would be made with concrete that is “extra hard and color-coated to resist vandalism and discoloration.”
The money approved by the council Monday night is for preparing a site survey and construction specifications for the proposed skateboard facilities.
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