{"id":24310,"date":"2011-07-12T17:39:42","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T00:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=24310"},"modified":"2011-07-12T17:42:17","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T00:42:17","slug":"watts-towers-skate-park-being-rushed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=24310","title":{"rendered":"Watts Towers Skate Park Being Rushed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/63172926.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/63172926.jpg','popup','width=600,height=285,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/63172926-tm.jpg\" height=\"204\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"63172926\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.parks.ca.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">California State Parks<\/a><\/strong> official is now saying that the <strong>Watts Towers Skate Park<\/strong> (which has been in the works for almost three years) is &#8220;being rushed,&#8221; according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/news\/la-et-watts-tower-skatepark-20110712,0,6960780.story\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Something of this magnitude deserves a full environmental review. It should be a much more open and democratic process,&#8221; Sean Woods, the state parks department&#8217;s superintendent for the Los Angeles sector, said Monday. &#8220;This is being hastily put together and rushed through.&#8221; . . The state leases the towers to Los Angeles, which is responsible for maintaining them and operating them as a cultural site.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If kids growing up without a safe spot to skate is &#8220;rushing&#8221; we&#8217;d had to see what Woods believes is a reasonable pace for developing a small concrete space in which to roll.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/news\/la-et-watts-tower-skatepark-20110712,0,6960780.story\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8220;being rushed,&#8221; according to a story in the LA Times. &#8220;Something of this magnitude deserves a full environmental review. It should be a much more open and democratic process,&#8221; Sean [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24310"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24310"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24312,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24310\/revisions\/24312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}