{"id":30618,"date":"2012-05-09T09:58:37","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T16:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=30618"},"modified":"2012-05-09T09:59:48","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T16:59:48","slug":"san-clemente-upholds-park-scooter-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=30618","title":{"rendered":"San Clemente Upholds Park Scooter Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/scooters.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/scooters.jpg','popup','width=230,height=223,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\/2012\/05\/scooters-tm.jpg\" height=\"193\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Scooters\" \/><\/a>The San Clemente, California Parks &#38; Recreations department voted 6 to1 on Tuesday night (May 8, 2012) to uphold the current ban on scooters at the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/san-clemente.org\/sc\/standard.aspx?pageid=298\" target=\"_blank\">City&#8217;s Ralphs Skate Court<\/a><\/strong>, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/news\/city-353334-scooter-skate.html\" target=\"_blank\">OC Register<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Commissioner <strong>Steven Streger<\/strong> said he would be open to revisiting the discussion of legalizing scooters at Ralphs Skate Court, depending on whether the city&#8217;s insurance covers only skateboarding and whether it bans &#8220;mixed use.&#8221; He said the statewide immunity protecting the city on skateboarding applies only to skaters 12 and older and to skaters doing tricks. There is a broader rule that covers dangerous activities, he said, so the key is the wording of the insurance, which commissioners didn&#8217;t have available to them Tuesday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not really sure that this ban makes any sense, but then again, the fewer scooter riders at skateparks, the better.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/news\/city-353334-scooter-skate.html\" target=\"_blank\">OC Register<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Clemente, California Parks &#38; Recreations department voted 6 to1 on Tuesday night (May 8, 2012) to uphold the current ban on scooters at the City&#8217;s Ralphs Skate Court, according to a story in the OC Register. Commissioner Steven Streger said he would be open to revisiting the discussion of legalizing scooters at Ralphs [&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":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30618"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30620,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30618\/revisions\/30620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}