SEQUIM — The skateboard arena in Carrie Blake Park is at last receiving its makeover.
In May, the Sequim City Council approved a plan to pave the adjacent parking lot and build a 6-foot-high cyclone fence around the park.
The project was supposed to start months ago, but local construction crews have had their hands full with larger projects such as Costco Wholesale on West Washington Street, city Public Works Director James Bay said.
When the parking lot and fence are finished, the city will also erect a sign listing skateboard park rules, said Mayor Walt Schubert.
It will include a “recommendation” that park users wear helmets, he added.
But the mayor doesn’t expect Sequim to enact an ordinance requiring helmets.
“I’d be against [a helmet law] because then we’d have to enforce it,” Schubert said.
“Unless you have somebody there all the time, it’s unenforceable.”
Responsible behavior
He added that he wants the skateboard park to foster responsible behavior among users — which includes the donning of helmets.
“The kids know right from wrong,” he said.
He hopes, too, that parental and peer pressure converge to make helmets what to wear.
