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What is the big deal with the skateboard park on Home Ave? It gives a place for them to go and have fun instead of going out and causing trouble! And when the Champlain Pkwy is built, whenever that happens, they won't have anywhere else to go except for the skateboard park on the waterfront!!
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Burlington, VT (Verified Official)
BurlingtonVTRegisteredReporter (Registered User)
Gil (Registered User)
jkc (Registered User)
The 7 Days article was absurd click-bait. The reality is that it is in a residential part of the city and the noise, fires (including burning a couch and used spray-paint cans) fireworks, trespassing on the neighboring properties etc. is a degradation to the neighborhoods quality of life. It is not a sweet skateboard themed park for kids like is almost implied in the manipulative article. There is one of those nearby at Talent and another skatepark at the waterfront. The discarded needles, empty liquor bottles in the woods and toxic fire pits suggest a very different narrative on the Road to Nowhere.
Why not host outdoor High School there? Or better yet, turn BHS into an autonomous zone/safe injection site/Homeless camp/car-free skatepark. That should take care of 70% of the city councils agenda.
Gil (Registered User)
rain007 (Registered User)
It’s idiocy to build out the Champlain Pky as per the current antiquated plan circa 1970s. Let’s build a sensible and safe roadway, and keep the skate park until construction for the new plan begins.
http://www.safestreetsburlington.com/?m=1
jkc (Registered User)
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BurlingtonVTRegisteredReporter (Registered User)
ONE Dad (Registered User)
jkc (Registered User)
Gil (Registered User)
DPW Engineering LW (Verified Official)
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