The park was poorly conceived & designed. That fact that the project was under discussion for YEARS is mind-blowing.

Blaming people who like to skateboard for the problem is kind of ridiculous. I’d like to think that both the residents of the street & the folks that use the park could come to together and agree upon one thing — the city totally fucked this up. Both groups should be angry but not at each other. Except for people who are urinating on peoples doorsteps. Fuck you.

As a resident, here’s what I’d like as a resident (I think):

Schedule -

Weekdays 7am- 9p.
Saturday 9a-11p
Sunday 10a-7p (wake me up early on a Sunday, I turn into a cross between the Hulk and Stanley Roberts)

One other request:

Don’t enter the park by coming down McCoppin. If you coming across Market, skate down Valencia and enter from Duboce. Or walk down McCoppin. This would cut down the noise on the street immensely.

I get it, I live near an overpass. It’s already noisy, but the fake-brick bullshit the city laid down on my street makes the street louder, skateboards in particular. This is actually a problem.

Really, failing the closing of the park for a redesign, this might be the best we can do.

I regularly come down, hang out, and watch the skaters. I also watch the dogs. It makes the street such a more interesting place to live.

But man, what a shit show on the part of whoever planned and designed this.

Nobody lives directly under the freeway like you claim. There are no homes or structures under the freeway there besides the skate park and a parking lot (that was supposed to be a park!).

That said, I am a tech fuck living nearby and I’m happy with the skate park being there – in general I think it does more good than harm to the area. Many of the people complaining have lived there for years or even decades – and also live closer to the noise source than I do, so they can speak to this even more candidly than I can. Honestly, I think if a restroom is installed and maintained, and the noise is kept to a minimum at night, things will be okay.

Also, ‘tenants’? Many residents in the area are home owners and have been since long before tech was a thing.

Add to that the fact that the park is sitting underneath a freeway ramp (used by trucks, motorcycles, etc 24/7) and the noise complaints seem a little silly.

The “urination on doorsteps, littering, etc.” sucks. That shouldn’t happen at all, but it’s unlikely that the early morning crew are the culprits. Pretty much older skaters on their way to work and young kids until 10 or so.