Skate Park Gets OK for Installation at Hollow Park

A new skate park will be installed at . First Selectman Gerald Stomski attended the Tuesday, May 8, Zoning Commission meeting and presented information under new applications.

Zoning Commission Chairman Martin Overton said a skate park is merely another type of recreation.

"It seems to me that a park is a park is a park," he said.

The skate park will be installed near the upper soccer field, Stomski said. He said it will consist of a 40 by 80 cement pad encircled by galvanized four-foot fencing and a gate. Ramps will be built for the skaters and he said cameras will likely be installed.

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No lighting will be installed as the skate park will not be open after sunset, just like Hollow Park, Stomski said.

He explained that the town's insurance covers a skate park as long as it is manufactured properly by a manufacturing company.

"We can't do it [the work] ourselves," said Stomski.

The consensus of the Zoning Commission was that a skate park was merely another recreational use of the park and voted to authorize the zoning enforcement officer to add the skate park as a use for Hollow Park.