Concerned residents are encouraged to attend our neighborhood meeting on July 18, 5:30 p.m., Sylvan Fire Station, 1713 SW Skyline. We’ll be meeting with city officials to explore ways to reduce reckless, noisy skateboarding in the neighborhood. Strategically placed rumble strips are one possibility. Transportation Bureau Director Tom Miller will attend, along with some of his traffic safety staff. Also attending will be Neighborhood Response Team Police Officer Hilary Scott, and Washington Park manager Bob Stillson.
A good turn-out will show the city how concerned we are about this problem.
3 replies on “Skateboard meeting July 18 at Sylvan Fire Station”
I would love to attend this meeting. I live on Champlain Drive and complain (almost) daily to my husband about the skateboarders that go by our house. Not only is the loud noise a nuisance but I have nearly hit them a few different times because of their carelessness. Unfortunately we have a newborn son so I am unsure if I will be able to make it to the meeting or not. I look forward to the update.
Solely because of a prior commitment, I cannot attend the meeting regarding skateboarding on Fairview, etc., but, I want to add our support to a total ban on stakeboarding down Fairview and through the Park. We live on Cascade Drive and of necessity must access it or exit from it by Fairview. We think, with few exceptions, the curb dogs have little regard for the public safety hazzard created by their dare devil rides.
I have actually been hit by a boarder in the Park who sucrried off before I could get out of the car to try to get his identification. The occurrence was reported to the police department but nothing, so far as I know, was done.
With few exceptions, the guys that ride their boards down Fairview and through the Park have little or no regard for public safety. It may be that under Oregon law, they have a right to ride, but no right is absolute. They ride at all hours of the day and night and traverse both lanes coming down hill and create serious public safety issues that, in my judgment, override their right to a joy ride. Given the number of people who use the corridors over which they ride, it is only a matter of time before a serious injury or death will occur. I think, under the circumstances of the number of people who use these corridors for transportion, not joy rides, the City is within its rights to totally ban skateboarding down Fairview and through the Park and the ban should be all encompassing, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Please pass these comments on to the public safety officers who will attend the meeting and add our voice to the support of a total ban on skatebaording on Fairview and through the Park.
C. Blaine Morley
This has long been a concern of ours We live across from Cantebury Lane on Fairview and our big worry, especially with summer traffic, is the dangerous nature of this activity–a city street is not a skateboard park and should not be used as such.
The numbers are increasing and at night sometimes more than 20 boarders will be coming down the hill at once while cars are coming up or wanting to get around them.
I would love to see the MAX stop closed at 10 when the park closes, this would at least curb the late night boarding. I may be time for Portland to ban street skate boarding as has been in done in a number of California cities.