Readers respond

AT ISSUE: The Costa Mesa City Council is reviewing plans for the

already approved skateboard park at Charle and Hamilton streets.

We are in dire need of a skate park -- dire need.

It’s pretty disheartening to hear how these council people try to act

like they want some things like a skate park but then turn around and say

strange things about green space and so on and so forth.

I don’t know. It’s baffling to the mind. Do something healthy for the

children for once.

JEFF GROSSO

Costa Mesa

Yes, I think Costa Mesa should have a skate park.

MERRIDITH CARR

Costa Mesa

Yes, we definitely need a skateboard park.

There are so few places that our kids can ride. They’re outlawed at

all the places where kids enjoy riding them.

So I agree that we need one. In fact, I think we need more than one.

We need one down near the beach as well as up further in Costa Mesa.

BETTY HAFER

Balboa Peninsula

I feel that a skate park is not the city’s responsibility.

It should be a private industry, referring back to the days of roller

skating rinks.

I do not think taxpayers’ money should be spent on a project that is

uncontrollable and would be nothing but an added city expense.

I hope that they [council members] will review their thinking on this

project and act accordingly.

SAM WAKELEY

Costa Mesa

My husband and I think that Charle and Hamilton streets is a bad

location [for a skate park]. There is lots of traffic; sometimes it takes

five minutes just to pull out of our driveway.

Also, with the fast-food place up at the corner, we already get quite

a bit of trash in our planter because it takes about that long to have a

taco and a drink.

So we are against the [proposed park site], also because of the safety

issue of children crossing the street.

A woman who lives across from the park site had mentioned her

9-year-old would have a terrific time at it, but I seriously doubt that

the 9-year-old is going to walk up to Harbor Boulevard in order to cross

the street safely.

We are definitely for a skate park. We just think that there is a

better place for it.

The children in Costa Mesa definitely need a place to hang out and

have a good time, possibly Lyons Park or Fairview Park. I know it’s quite

far out there, Fairview Park. But again, with the traffic and the woman

already being hit on Hamilton Street, it’s just a perfect example of why

it’s not a safe place.

But the city does need additional entertainment for the children and

the older kids who skateboard.

TRICIA LEUCK

Costa Mesa

I think the Hamilton and Charle streets location is a dangerous one.

The city should take another look at that site. [City officials] are

making a mistake if they go through with that site.

VANESSA COCROFT

Costa Mesa