{"id":2965,"date":"2008-07-23T09:00:13","date_gmt":"2008-07-23T16:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=2965"},"modified":"2008-07-23T09:00:19","modified_gmt":"2008-07-23T16:00:19","slug":"council-stalls-skatepark-project-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=2965","title":{"rendered":"Council Stalls Skatepark Project Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is getting to the point of absurdity. Last night the Carlsbad City Council voted to stall the proposed $50 million <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?s=Alga+Norte+Park\" target=\"_blank\">Alga Norte Park, Aquatic Center and Skateboard Park<\/a><\/strong> and not put it out to bid because as the Mayor said we&#8217;re having hard economic times, according to the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/weblog.signonsandiego.com\/news\/breaking\/2008\/07\/post_44.html\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union Tribune<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Mayor Bud Lewis<\/strong> recalled when his family lost its home when he was a youngster during the Great Depression, and said it was not good for the city to spend millions on a project during hard economic times.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Council voted to reconsidered the park in October. What they failed to mention is that this means Carlsbad will be without a skateboard park for even longer now as the Orion park will be destroyed so the city can build a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=1973\" target=\"_blank\">police and fire training facility<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Note to Mayor Lewis<\/strong>: when economic times are hard it&#8217;s all the more important that kids and families have local, free recreational options. Not less. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is getting to the point of absurdity. Last night the Carlsbad City Council voted to stall the proposed $50 million Alga Norte Park, Aquatic Center and Skateboard Park and not put it out to bid because as the Mayor said we&#8217;re having hard economic times, according to the San Diego Union Tribune. Mayor Bud [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}