District 2 Freeholder Maureen Kern
One proposed location for a new skate park is overlaid on this satellite image, which shows the Ocean City Fire Department (right), the Clothes Closet (just to the right of the park) and existing parking (left).
The public is invited to a meeting on Wednesday to learn more about and to provide feedback on plans to build a skateboard park on city-owned property on the 500 block of Asbury Avenue.
The event is scheduled for 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Nov. 5 in the Chris Maloney Lecture Hall at the Ocean City Free Public Library (17th Street and Simpson Avenue). Councilman Michael Allegretto, Councilman Michael DeVlieger and Councilman Antwan McClellan are sponsoring the meeting.
The city in September received a $500,000 Green Acres Cape May County Recreation Grant to create the new park, and the city already has approved a capital plan that calls for spending another $250,000 on the project. Tentative plans call for the construction of a state-of-the-art concrete park, unlike the temporary ramps and rails at a skate park that was dismantled by the city (citing safety concerns) in 2011.
The county money is contingent on using the location specified in the grant application: adjacent to the Ocean City Fire Department in the block between Fifth and Sixth streets, Asbury and West avenues.
Topics to be covered at Wednesday's meeting include:
