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GRID wrote: ↑Sun Oct 02, 2022 5:57 pm This area will likely develop, but this is only a master land use plan provided to the county by a consulting firm. This is not an actual "project".

Noahfleshman wrote: ↑Sun Oct 02, 2022 4:05 am Thank you to whomever is responsible for putting a skatepark in this plan you’re a good person.

Noahfleshman wrote: ↑Mon Oct 03, 2022 11:28 am You obviously don’t skate, that park is over 20 years old, it’s in terrible condition, skateboarders DIY with there own money to fix cracks, patch concrete, etc.. and the city could care less about it. They pick up trash and mow monthly.. Meanwhile we continue to build hundreds of soccer / baseball fields that are only used a few months out of the year by a certain demographic. We need a better skate park in our city, it’s used by every demographic, all year round, we have a huge skateboarding scene, lots of younger people into scooters and bikes as well as skateboarding. Look at Des Moines our neighbor, they built a beautiful skatepark one of the largest in the country, it attracts Dew Tour and at least one out of town visitor daily. Our city ignores skateboarding because it won’t bring them money like suburban youth sports, yet in the long run our facilities fees are less, and if it’s built correctly out of concrete it will last many years. Go ahead and call that pipe dream under the new bridge a skatepark, but I haven’t seen any plans, i won’t believe it until I see it, how many inner city kids play soccer or baseball in places like Staley, last I remember when staley was built they did everything they could to keep the government subsidized assisted living apartments on north oak out of their school zone. That’s another topic for another day. As skateboarders were overlooked, and just about everyone on this fourm is clueless about skateboarding, despite the fact they all wear Vans, and take their kids to scooter at the 20 year old park or they just don’t care because they’re the ones advocating for the things planned in this document. Go to colorado, California, just about anywhere out west and look at their skateparks, jump across the state to Ofallon missouri, or look at Lenexa planning on spending $750k on a new skatepark. The north land needs a new skatepark because the demand is there, we just get ignored because our sport doesn’t draw hundreds of yuppies or make the city any money, and when our parks get vandalized by non skaters they blame it on the skateboarders. Look at pleasant valley, and look at penn valley Kansas City’s only two skateparks, they’re covered in graffiti and falling apart, imagine if someone vandalized a baseball diamond or soccer field in the same way. It would be all over the news and people would be appalled, it would be fixed within days, but when it comes to skateboarding it’s brushed under the rug, and left to stay. We have even taken it upon ourselves to build a DIY skate park in Columbus Park on unused land, that the majority on here can’t wait to see gone and turned into more “affordable” housing. Any time of the day there’s usually someone there too, Say what you want about skateboarding, but I believe there’s a future there for it, it’ll just take a lot of advocacy.


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maison rustique wrote: ↑Tue Oct 04, 2022 8:00 am Traffic is already bad around here. What are the plans for handling all the additional cars on the road? And if we are adding more people, where will the kids attend school?

TheSmokinPun wrote: ↑Tue Oct 04, 2022 3:52 pm The traffic that is bad is the fact that 152 is just a huge runway for everyone to continue rolling at 65mph right before traffic lights where they're building everything up just east of 435. Simply out of control and dangerous drivers in that area, such an embarrassment.