Save Santa Clarita Skate Park

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Save Santa Clarita Skate Park



For many years since the Santa Clarita Skate Park opened in 1998 thousands of kids have made it their place for good clean fun. Countless children in the Santa Clarita Valley have been able to go to the skate park and expel their youthful energy in a safe and positive atmosphere for which many consider their home away from home.

The City of Santa Clarita has planned to build a new skate park at the sports complex and when this planning was happening hundreds of people came to express their ideas and thankfulness. The skateboarders of the city were teaming with excitement about the new skate park. With the start of the new construction for numerous changes to the sports complex the kids soon discovered that the city planned to demolish the current skate park sometime around April or May of 2008. The new skate park isnt scheduled to be open until summer of 2009 and that is an optimistic opening date since the construction on the new skate park hasnt even started yet. Thus, the skaters in Santa Clarita will essentially be homeless for about a year and a half. This is too long.

In many cities across the nation and even in Santa Clarita before its current park was built skaters that have no park to skate in take to the streets and commercial business store fronts in order to skate and practice their sport. As a result there are exponentially more injuries and illegal behaviors happening, which in turn take precious time and services away from our law enforcement. This is a situation we would like to avoid.

We propose that the city of Santa Clarita make changes to their plan to allow for the current skate park to remain open until the new park is open. Without this change our kids will suffer or worse find alternate undesirable ways to have fun!

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  • WiL R
  • james j
    • City, Zip Code
    • monterey park, 91755
  • Raul L
    • City, Zip Code
    • glendale
  • Jason R
    • City, Zip Code
    • 90803
  • Geoff K
    • City, Zip Code
    • rosemead
  • Geoff G
    • Comments
    • Please do not close the current skate park until the new park is complete!!!
    • City, Zip Code
    • Castaic 91384
  • devin j
    • Comments
    • save the park!!
    • City, Zip Code
    • monterey park, 91755
  • Sylvia Q
    • City, Zip Code
    • monterey park, 91755
  • William Z
    • Comments
    • Where do u want kids to go and hang out? the streets? wrong choice people
    • City, Zip Code
    • 13790
  • Rebecca R
    • Comments
    • take out a place for kids to go hang out, then take out a few clubs for the adults as well.. see how they like it
    • City, Zip Code
    • 13760
  • Vitaliy K
    • Comments
    • please do not destroy anymore skateparks
    • City, Zip Code
    • 53140
  • Steve M
    • City, Zip Code
    • hunnington beach
  • Lyndon C
    • City, Zip Code
    • 92646
  • john s
  • Warren J
  • Sean C
  • Tiffany A
  • carson w
    • Comments
    • В
    • City, Zip Code
    • В
  • nick
    • City, Zip Code
    • 91381
  • danny c
    • Comments
    • help us save the skate park its the only one thats close to my house
  • Jamie S
    • Comments
    • THE KIDS AREN'T SHOOTING PEOPLE THEY ARE SKATING! THE PROBLEM?
  • Anthony A
  • Sharon T
    • City, Zip Code
    • Anaheim Hills Ca.
  • john and yael k
    • Comments
    • we,ve been going to the skate park for 7 years we taught both our sons and know its our dautgter turn what a absolute shame for our comunity.
    • City, Zip Code
    • 91351
  • Jes V
  • Daniel W
    • Comments
    • Please don't demolish this skatepark until the new one is built.
    • City, Zip Code
    • 90042
  • Jimmy L
    • City, Zip Code
    • Denver, CO 80206
  • Genessa B
    • Comments
    • Please continue to give our children, our future, a place for recreation. We cannot continue to ask them to work hard and at the same time take away the chances to play, release stress and gateways to creativity.
  • jared r
    • City, Zip Code
    • 90277
  • Jonathan N
    • Comments
    • skateboarders reserve the right to skateboard!
  • Janet R
    • Comments
    • Save the skate parks.
    • City, Zip Code
    • Camarillo, CA. 93012
  • robyn
    • City, Zip Code
    • 91350
  • Christine S
    • City, Zip Code
    • Valencia, CA
  • Jesenia R
  • Beau H
    • Comments
    • The children are our future
    • City, Zip Code
    • 91607
  • Teddy
    • Comments
    • Please dont close our park
    • City, Zip Code
    • Los Angeles,CA
  • Travis
    • Comments
    • why not keep the current one open till the new one opens or indeffinetly
    • City, Zip Code
    • saugus, 91350
  • Craig J
    • Comments
    • Save our park
  • Gabriel Antonio G
  • michael r
  • steve m
  • Kevin W
    • Comments
    • its "no child left behind" not "only those skater kids get left behind"
  • Vanessa R
  • Victor V
    • City, Zip Code
    • Valley Village, CA 91607
  • aimee s
    • Comments
    • if you don't provide an outlet for the skaters they're going to disrupt many local businesses. that would be terrible for the city
    • City, Zip Code
    • 91354
  • Andre P
    • Comments
    • My son and I travel over 50 miles to use one of the last Skate Parks in California, please do not close it down.
    • City, Zip Code
    • 90601
  • Robert M
    • Comments
    • I learned here
    • City, Zip Code
    • 98188
  • Rita N
  • alondra b
  • gabriel c
    • Comments
    • in the days when funds are getting pulled away from school PE programs and art is in the dumps, it would be in the best interest of everyone to keep the kids in a creative enviroment while building a new park. what a way to shut kids out of the community they live in.
    • City, Zip Code
    • redondo beach 90277