SLC Mini Ramp Ban Update

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• October 14 2008
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Salt Lake City’s Lizard King protesting with a kickflip fakie on the Celtek ramp. Courtesy of Celtek.

On October 2, the Salt Lake City Board Of Health (?) voted unanimously to  suspend the ban on “Sporting Ramps” for six months while they looked into the problem.

According to an article in the Salt Lake Tribune, SLC Board of Health Director Gary Edwards apologized for the ban, and Environmental Health Director Royal DeLegge said: “Internally, this should not have happened. I accept responsibility for that.”

The board had voted to prohibit the construction or use of ramps in private residences within 800 feet of any dwelling on August 7. Concerned skateboarders quickly reacted, creating a Web site and online petition to get this ban overturned. Nick Hale, a Salt Lake skater and ramp-owner created slcminiramp.com, in order to raise awareness and get signatures for the petition. “The goal of my campaign is to maintain our rights as property owners, and as citizens,” he says. “To me this is more then a simple bullshit biased ordinance against skateboarding. It’s an ordinance against my property rights as a tax-paying homeowner. Skating is a part of my lifestyle, and I don’t want to give that up.”

County officials will investigate the noise issue, and reach a decision on April 1, 2009. For more information go to slcminiramp.com or slvhealth.org.