Council OKs Final Design for Skateboarding Park
The City Council has approved a final design for the Hermosa Beach Skate Park, which includes a quarter-pipe ramp, railings, stairs and pyramids of several heights.
The 7,700-square-foot park will be built next to the Hermosa Beach Community Center with similar obstacles to those that skateboarders find on the street. Construction of the $70,000 park, which was designed with the help of hundreds of skateboarders who participated in workshops, is scheduled to be completed by the fall.
It took more than two years for the park to come to fruition. Skateboarders went to the city in 1996 to complain that they had no place to ride their skateboards. More than 500 skateboarders signed a petition to build a skateboard park and the city agreed.
“We want this to be the best park around,” said Councilwoman Julie Oakes. “It was the kids who told us what they wanted and they’re going to have a park they should be proud of. . . . We can’t wait to get started.”
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