SF DPW needs to put in a restroom. That’s the biggest issue. But lack of restrooms doesn’t give an excuse to piss on people’s homes. There’s a 24hr Safeway just 3-4 blocks away.

I haven’t seen any fights myself but if there are, it’s undoubtedly over stupid shit. Stop that.

About the noise (and this is my perspective, granted there are a few houses between mine and the park): it is definitely *way* louder than the freeway. The freeway is elevated and the noise doesn’t really carry down the block much. It’s also more of a white noise deal… and since it’s the very end, vehicles aren’t moving that fast anyways. It’s not louder than Recology trucks.

So yeah, the hours were set at 9-9 for a reason. I don’t mind having 50+ skaters around during those times, but it would be super nice for everyone to stay quiet-ish after 9pm, k? Is that unreasonable?

Oh yeah – it also would have been nice if the City actually built a larger park next to the dog park instead of the empty city-vehicles-only parking lot, like they were originally supposed to. Thanks for that.

are you a resident? if not then you have no business deciding what’s loud and what is not. if you don’t live here then you don’t get to make that call. and if you do, then come on over to my place and you can sleep in my room since i no longer use it. can’t sleep there so i sleep in the living room instead. and i’m still awakened by skateboarders almost nightly. we have no peace here, day or night. it wasn’t like that before, even with the freeway, zeigeist, and whatever else you think makes it ok to contribute to noise pollution.

as far as when the skate park broke ground, that’s irrelevant. it wasn’t the skate park that cleaned up the street. it wasn’t the construction that cleaned up the street. it was community effort and advocacy that cleaned it up. stop pretending you did US the favor.

if we are truly the curmudgeons you paint us to be then why aren’t we agitating for them to shut down zeitgeist or complaining about the freeway noise to the city? we don’t care if you skate but do it within the hours you are permitted to and for god’s sake just pee on a bush or in a nearby bathroom not our freakin doors, is that really too much to ask?!

Neighbors, I wouldn’t worry too much about these bums being up before 7 a.m. Judging by their shitty analogies and piss poor excuses for SCIENCE not allowing them to find somewhere to piss, they won’t want to miss their morning cartoons.

I have “asked the parks and rec” through their website about the bathroom issue – to no reply. Most parks in SF are not built without bathroom facilities, why this one? Science says that if you place 100+ people in an area, some significant percentage will be needing to go to the bathroom at any given time. It’s not logical on the parks/rec and NOT the fault of a skateboarders given physiology.

we don’t have crackheads with shopping carts on our street and we haven’t had problems with encampments for well over a year. sure, we get the occasional person sleeping on our street, but i’d love to hear of a place in SF that doesn’t have the same.

our street was not cleaned up by a skate park. it was cleaned up by a community of residents working thier asses off, interfacing with public officials, working with the police, and doing the grunt work. it had nothing to do with the skatepark.

if you want a bathroom, ask parks and rec for one. you not having a bathroom is not a reason to use our houses as urinals. it does not excuse your act. its gross and precisely the shit that will get the skate park shut down.

for those of you who think you are some kind of hero on a skateboard, you’re not doing us any favors. our street was cleaned up before the skate park was finished with construction. you didn’t swoop in on your gilded skateboard and save us from our fate, you have ruined our street with your noise, fights, and piss.

funny, we had those problems before you came too. looks like the only thing that has changed is that the people keeping us awake, causing fights, doing drugs, and in general making life miserable is now skateboarders instead of the homeless. at least the homeless had an excuse. y’all are just a bunch of assholes.

you aren’t part of the solution you are part of the problem.

And please NO BIKES or RAZOR SCOOTERS!!!