Josh Scheuerman fought for West Valley City’s skate park for decades. Now, the skate community has a place to gather and a better reputation.
Josh Scheuerman fought for West Valley City’s skate park for decades. Now the skate community has a place to gather and a better reputation.| May 1, 2022, 2:10 p.m.Like many other sports, skateboarding often looks like attempts at defying gravity. Boarders leap in the air, fall, get back up, and try again.
But, in the 1990s, when Scheuerman was in high school, there weren’t many places to skate in West Valley City. He would carve, grind and flip at church parking lots and store loading docks. But he and his friends repeatedly were kicked out from everywhere they went skating.“There’s a lot of underprivileged youth in the city,” Scheuerman said. “If you don’t give a place for the skaters to skate, they’re going to be skating at your mall, they’re going to be skating at your church.
Amid this climate, advocacy efforts for a West Valley City skate park started. While a few skaters followed up with their petition for months, it was Scheuerman who continued presenting — for 15 years — statistics and benefits of a skate park to the City Council., West Valley City’s new mayor, who was a council member for some of those 15 years, said the main problem was financial.
“The skateboard community in Salt Lake Valley, in general, is super close-knit. Everyone seems to be getting along right now,” Orton said. “It’s been cliquey in the past. But right now it seems like everyone just has a common goal of wanting to get out and have a good time.”What makes this park special
“This goes back to thinking that skaters are riffraff and problem children.” Scheuerman said. “... That’s a big misconception — thinking ‘these kids are gonna be delinquents, and so we might as well preemptively build a fence to make sure that we can contain them.’ And so I got them to not build a fence. And I think that was a really good way to include skaters and make them not feel like they are delinquents.
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