austin skate notes

Last week’s public input meeting on Austin’s bond-money skate & bmx park was terrific. Newline’s Kyle and Trevor did a good job presenting modern skatepark concepts and forging agreements between the street skaters/bikers and transition skaters/bikers. The general gist is a mix of 70% street plaza elements and 30% transition features. The street features are to focus more on tech than gnar stair gaps. The bowl stuff will be mellow with largish transitions. My heart was warmed when Kyle wrote ‘Banana Farm!‘ on his big sketch pad. (more…)

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Skateboarders and BMXers rallied two years ago and successfully lobbied the City to include $1.3 million in Austin’s last bond package for the purpose of building a skatepark and BMX park. The voters approved it and a year later the city has set the wheels in motion to begin this project.

Wanna tell the city how to design the next skatepark to be built in Austin? Come to the public input meeting to be held December 12th at the Austin Recreation Center (ARC) at 7:00 PM. The current plan is to incorporate both skateboarding and BMX in the facility to be built in place of the current house park ramps-on-a-slab facility. Canadian skatepark designer / builder, Newline, will be in attendance and gathering suggestions for the design of this dual-use skatepark.

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No to be bitchy but if you come to the San Marcos park and hang in the parking lot please don’t leave a pile of beer cans in the parking lot. Second if you do some sort of promotion with food and beverage, ask the kids to throw away the trash. The locals spent about a half hour Sunday morning cleaning up the place. The folks at the library already hate us, the mayor tried to cut our funding for phase two and the Round Rock park newspaper articles helped make the skatepark an issue in the last city council election. Just a little help please.

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