A California State Parks official is now saying that the Watts Towers Skate Park (which has been in the works for almost three years) is “being rushed,” according to a story in the LA Times.
“Something of this magnitude deserves a full environmental review. It should be a much more open and democratic process,” Sean Woods, the state parks department’s superintendent for the Los Angeles sector, said Monday. “This is being hastily put together and rushed through.” . . The state leases the towers to Los Angeles, which is responsible for maintaining them and operating them as a cultural site.
If kids growing up without a safe spot to skate is “rushing” we’d had to see what Woods believes is a reasonable pace for developing a small concrete space in which to roll.
[Link: LA Times]
