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Skateboarding Banned on Some Steep Streets

Skateboarding Banned on Some Steep Streets

| April 6, 2011 | 2 Comments

But not without threatened lawsuit   “We don’t want to trade liberty for safety,” Peter French, whose family has lived in Laguna for generations and whose children skateboard, said to the council.  “If you ban hills in the city where this sport was born, I personally will challenge it.  I’m sorry, I will.  It will [...]

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More Streets Off-Limits to Skateboarding

More Streets Off-Limits to Skateboarding

| March 24, 2011 | 7 Comments

Bombing Hills Becoming a Bygone Pastime After hearing nearly three hours of requests to stop a ban against skateboarding on steep streets in Laguna Beach, the City Council on Tuesday unanimously voted to move ahead with prohibiting downhill skateboarding on eight blocks with grades of five percent or higher.   The council’s action gives preliminary [...]

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More Laguna Streets Off-Limits to Skateboarding

More Laguna Streets Off-Limits to Skateboarding

| March 23, 2011 | 0 Comments

Bombing the hills becoming a bygone pastime   After hearing nearly three hours of requests to stop a ban against skateboarding on steep streets in Laguna Beach, the City Council on Tuesday unanimously voted to move ahead with prohibiting downhill skateboarding on eight blocks with grades of five percent or higher. The council’s action gives [...]

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