Fairhope, Alabama
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| Volanta skateboard park. |
MORE PARKING NEEDED AT VOLANTA
A proposal to relocate the city's only skate board park to make way for more parking at Volanta Park was one of the issues discussed during a recent recreation board meeting ... concerning its next "five year plan."
Recreation director White suggested room may available for a new one at Founders Park, on Twin Beech Road.
When asked about it later, mayor Sullivan said she had reservations: "This has only been mentioned and not sure I like the idea. It would take permission from the State to move. I do not like the location mentioned at Founder’s."
The recreation committee is only for advisory purposes; the city council sets spending priorities.
(The skate park was completed in 2010 using a state ADECA grant and other local funds.)
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| Recreation director White. |
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| Possible new location. |
Comments
The liability insurance the city carries must be expensive. Let’s put that money somewhere else and let a private company run a skateboard park.
Adding those additional ball fields have created quite the mess on Greeno and including the old folks’ home, will be a mess on Volanta.
It’s time for another ball park/rec center complex, why not on the City property next to Walmart?