Skateboard RampsPLANNING COMMISSION
REPORT:
Planning Commission Report
SKATEBOARD RAMPS
MAY 21, 1987
PURPOSE: To review and recommend action on an ordinance
to prohibit skateboard ramps.
BACKGROUND: In February the Commission held a public
hearing to consider an ordinance prohibiting skateboard
ramps within the City. That meeting was attended by
many skateboard enthusiasts who spoke about the sport
and how they would like to work with the City to solve
the problems created by the ramps. The meeting was
also attended by residents who complained about the
noise created by the ramps. The Commission continued
the item for two months. In this two months the staff
would research the issue and the skateboarders were to
help the City staff. The skateboarders did not contact
the staff during the two months,
At the April meeting the skateboarders did not appear.
Residents did voice their concern about the great
amount of noise created by the ramps and they are not
an appropriate use in a residential neighborhood.
The Commission was concerned that if they prohibited
skateboard ramps in the City it then would eliminate
some recreation for the child who would put up a board
for a few days to skateboard on.
The ordinance was sent to the City Attorney for his
opinion. It appears that the proposed ordinance will
apply to the permanent type structures and allow the
temporary type ramps to exist.
The City Attorney will be writing the owners of the
Bellgrove ramp to cease use under the nuisance
ordinance. (To our knowledge the Interlachen ramp has
not been used since last summer).
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ANALYSIS: The proposed ordinance will accomplish what
the Commission is desiring. A child will be able to
put a board up and use it for a ramp while the big
permanent ramps will be prohibited.
ALTERNATIVES:
1. Approve the ordinance and send to Council.
2. Modify the language of the ordinance.
3. Do nothing
4. Continue for further information
RECOMMENDATION: I recommend Alternative #1. The
following are suggested Findings of Fact should the
Commission recommend approval of the Ordinance:
1. That the ordinance will prohibit permanent
skateboard ramps.
Respectfully submitted,
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Nancy S. Anderson
Community Development
Analyst
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Date: May 19, 1987
To: Nancy Anderson
From: Jerre Miller
Re: Skateboard
C I T Y O F H O P K I N S
MEMO
You have asked whether the proposed Skateboard Ramp Ordinance
prohibiting the use of them in residential areas would include a
small piece of plywood on a temporary support that smaller kids
sometime use from time to time.
The Ordinance is intended to prohibit the large permanent -type
structures that are now located in two backyards in residential
areas and the prohibition would have no effect on a little piece of
plywood or similar temporary jump since it does not meet the
considered definition of a skateboard ramp as such.
I trust this answers .o r question but if you wish any further
comment, let me know.
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BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of
Hopkins as follows:
That subsection 11(j) of Section 530 of the
Hopkins Zoning Ordinance be and the same is hereby amended
by adopting in place thereof the following subsection:
(j) Recreational equipment not otherwise
prohibited in Section 530.12, provided
that it is so located as to not
encourage trepassing onto abutting lots
or infringe on the side yard thereof.
That the Hopkins Zoning Ordinance No. 530.12 be
and the same is hereby amended by adding the following
provisions:
530.12 Prohibited Uses: R Districts
(a) Skateboard ramps or similar structures
used for skateboarding or related
purposes are prohibited in residentially
zoned areas.
First read at a regular meeting of the Council of
the City of Hopkins on 1987, and finally read
approved and ordered published on 1987.
J. SCOTT RENNE, ELLEN LAVIN
City Clerk Mayor
JERRE MILLER
City Attorney
CITY OF HOPKINS
Hennepin County, Minnesota
ORDINANCE NO: 87-
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THAT PART OF HOPKINS
ZONING ORDINANCE NO. 530 PERTAINING TO
RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS