Yesterday was a somber day for the skateboard community: Three months after Caltrans tore down The Spot, a popular skate park built on state-owned property in West Oakland in 2009, the agency carried out its plans to demolish the nearby Bordertown skate park near the Oakland-Emeryville border. As the Express reported in
The transit agency made clear its plans to remove both illegally constructed parks in July when it issued demolition notices for the structures to officials in both cities.
both structures have spurred debates over the issue of public space and bureactratic red tape
Talk about how/when they issued demolition notices and why it took them longer to tear down bordertown.
