If the city where you live suddenly announces, without any prompting from local skateboarders, that it has decided to build a free public skatepark, then you are very fortunate indeed. Most communities are not so enlightened--at least not yet. Instead, your only recourse probably will be to create your own grassroots movement that gains so much momentum the city will have no choice but to build a skatepark. That means you have to get organized, draw up a detailed plan of attack, then do a lot of hard work to make sure those plans get carried out. Skaters everywhere grit their teeth when they hear that the best way to get a skatepark built is to take a well planned, business-like approach, but often that's the only chance they have of getting their own skatepark. The four links below will take you to articles that show you how to organize a skatepark committee, rally community and government support, raise money, and then design your park. (Note: the design section is devoted almost exclusively to concrete parks.) If you want to read them online, use the html version. If you want to print them out, we recommend the pdf format. 1) ORGANIZING html / pdf 2) PLANNING html / pdf 3) FUNDRAISING html / pdf 4) DESIGNING html / pdf
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