TELL THEM TODAY!

We don’t need to sacrifice green urban parkland for great skate spaces! Shift the poured-concrete construction to nearby already-paved space. Use info below to contact officials and spread the word.

Brooklyn Community Board voted against the Mount Prospect Park paving plan, in a detailed resolution addressing problems related to environmental health, climate, democratic process, and safety. The Board called paving green space for skate space “bad public policy” and welcomed concrete skate facility construction “with open arms” — on already-paved space. Thousands of community members who have signed the petition agree, and a growing number of environmental health, urban climate, greenspace, historical, neighborhood, and climate-conscious skateboarding groups have joined a public statement to protect Mount Prospect Park’s greenspace — and shift any concrete construction to already-paved space.

Speak up now to keep Mount Prospect Park green, so everyone can keep enjoying pickup soccer, picnics, and hanging out with family, friends and pets. Daycares and camps with no outdoor space can keep using it to play. Elderly people and people with disabilities can keep using it easily. Everyone can enjoy Mount Prospect Park’s flexible green space and towering shade trees for free! (And with more than $11 million of our public money, the City can rehab nearby neglected skate spaces, and build opportunities on local paved space. Visit our Alternate Sites = Everybody Wins and Green Skaters pages for just a few examples.)

More paving = more heat. We already have killer heat and too many paved heat islands — and the planet’s getting hotter. We want each green space decision to support our environmental health, now and for the future. Officials should live up to the policies they put on paper.