Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Moon Boot skatepark design wins Facebook poll

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In order to come to a decision on a skatepark design, the city’s Skatepark Committee decided to conduct a poll on Facebook. The city advertised on March 23 that from March 27-31, people could vote on their favorite design, the peanut bowl, the open faced bowl and the moon boot bowl.

The poll was on Facebook. Also, ballots were dropped off at Cascade High School, Icicle River Middle School, Discovery School and Osborn Elementary School.

“Everybody was polled and the moon boot came out on top. The moon boot had 106 votes, the open bowl 98 votes and the peanut bowl had 33. There were 38 votes for none of the above,” said City Administrator Joel Walinski.

The committee wants to take the top design back to the city council and get that approved. Walinski said the committee was ready to go with whatever design the poll indicated. If there was a tie vote, the committee would have to do something or if the majority picked none of the above.

Since the moot boot design came out on top, Walinski said they are going to take it to the city council on April 11 to have them consider the moon boot the final design. Results on a council decision were not available before press time.

“There’s two types of skaters, the transition folks that like the bowls and the street skaters that like the open spaces. Definitely, the open bowl lent itself to the street skaters where the moon boot gave a separate space for the transition skaters,” Walinski said. “After talking with the skateboarders, it makes sense that the open bowl and the moon boot are the favorites. At some point in time, you just have to move forward, with the objective of moving forward this year.”

Even if the project were put on hold for further refinement, Walinski said you still probably would not get something that everyone wants.

“Skateboarding is such an individual type sport, so people have their preferences,” Walinski said. “I would be surprised if we could find a design that would even give us 95 percent.”

Skatepark designer and builder, Grindline, has the concept plans. Walinski said the nice thing is that all three of the concept plans have a lot of similarity.

“I believe some of their work has continued on. But we do not have a final design they can go to work on in terms of creating construction documents,” he said. “That’s why it is important to get a design, so they can finish up their construction documents. I believe they are still thinking the end of May, first part of June is when they would be on site.”

Ian Dunn can be reached at 548-5286 or editor@leavenworthecho.com.

 

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