Build Summit Skatepark

Every weekend for the past few years my friends and I go skateboarding, a lot of the time in summit with the same outcome. Pedestrians will call the police or people will yell at us for even just riding our boards.

To be honest we are all tired of it and the last time a police officer stopped us I asked him where we can skate and his reply was "where you do not get caught". I really do not like to think of ourselves as "Criminals" the way the police make us feel, we just are some kids who are doing something fun and positive to keep us on track. This is why Summit needs a skatepark.We can not drive to chatham or Livingston, and they are too far to skateboard/ bike to. Recently the town of Colonia in Woodbridge township built a skatepark, and a 175,000 dollars has just been approved to build a new one in Maplewood.

Now we have thought out thoroughly logistics and a great spot for one would be behind the train station where there was a fire at a car dealership a few years back. It seems like it is just being cleaned up. Another location would be in memorial field or in the park behind the train station.