The John & Summit Park opened earlier this month. Capitol Hill Seattle blog reports that a horde of angry NIMBYers are already whining to the city about noise and property damage by skateboarders. Property damage isn’t cool, agreed. But noise? In the comments thread, one stick-in-the-mud says, “btw, it’s 10:15 p.m and there are still skateboards in the park. This is when I usually go to bed but it’s impossible to do so.” You live in one of the best nightlife areas in a big city and you can’t sleep…because of the skateboarders? How about you go eat Grant Wood’s ass and get the fuck out of my city?
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Don’t move to the middle of a fucking city and complain about noise. What a bunch of twats.
I want my blow up doll back!!!!!
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Who is Grant Wood and why does my love of early bedtimes and hatred of loud skateboarders necessitate me eating his ass?
On the issue of skateboarding and nightlife and etc etc –
That particular area of Capitol Hill isn’t known for its vibrant nightlife, or loud nightlife (although, with CC’s moving in to Cafe Metropolitain’s spot…)
The fact is that skateboards are loud. Annoyingly so. Wanting skateboarders to stfu by 10 is not a lot to ask.
Why is there a [sic] after the there, in “there are” in the first paragraph above? Isn’t it correct?
I don’t mind the sound of the skate boarders in that park, but the features are too near the street. I has hit in the leg by a flying board while walking past on the sidewalk Weds. I was not hurt but still don’t like having to duck flying skateboards.
I for one blame the owls.
Seriously, who decided to train them to ride skateboards?
@6 – I was wondering about that too.
@5
Not close to nightlife? Are you out of your fool mind?
I lived right across that lot for five years because it was exactly in the middle of everything. Amantes, Clever Dunnes, Metropolitan, Bus Stop, Stumbling Monk, Starbucks, Glo’s, City Market, That gay place, the other new bar, etc. etc.etc.
@1 and Matt: read @5. He’s right, you’re wrong. Capitol Hill is a big neighborhood, it’s not just Pike/Pine. I live in that neighborhood and it is very quiet. Noise like this is WAY out of character.
That said, there are quite a number of older buildings that probably have single-paned windows. Step 1, get new, double-paned windows. Step 2, call the police, as the skateboarders are breaking the law.
Seattle Muni code 25.08.500
“It is unlawful for any person knowingly to cause or make… unreasonable noise which disturbs another… “Unreasonable noise” shall include the following sounds or combination of sounds:…
D. Loud or raucous, and frequent, repetitive, or continuous sounds created by use of a… device capable of producing sound when struck by an object…;
E. Loud and raucous, and frequent, repetitive, or continuous sounds made by the amplified or unamplified human voice between the hours of ten (10:00) p.m. and seven (7:00) a.m.
@ 3 — Yeah, sorry…don’t know what happened. I tried a backup just now and that was busted, too. But you know what I mean!
@ 4 — American Gothic
@ 6,8 — Fixed.
@ 9 — My thoughts exactly. I live in the very near vicinity, too. It’s a whole different scene at night.
@9, it’s close to nightlife, but not immediately adjacent to it. You’re missing @5’s point
Years ago, my girlfriend would shoo her cats off her little balcony after dark because she was afraid “the owls” would get them. Who (ha) could have known that she may not have been totally out of her goddamned mind?
@9,
Fuck off. I lived a few blocks from there for YEARS and it’s completely dead after 10 p.m., like 90 percent of the neighborhoods in this “city,” especially on weekdays.
Man, Grant Wood is awesome. Why’d you have to drag him into this?
@ 10 — Or don’t call the police. Why not just ask the skateboarders to leave? They will almost certainly respond better to that than people secretly calling the cops on them.
@ 14 — But you’re missing the point. The person who complained was in seeing distance of the park. If you’re in seeing distance of the park, you’re in seeing distance of Olive and its bus routes, Starbucks, Glo’s, a couple of bars, and convenience stores. This is not like living on Harrison or Republican.
@ 15 — I thought of “bucolia” (word?) and he was the first person who came to mind.
I had to bitch at some dude at the Lookout who was mad that people were “being loud”.
YOU CHOOSE TO LIVE NEXT TO A BAR. F-ING MOVE IF YOU DON’T LIKE THE NOISE.
There are about, oh I don’t know, a billion apartments within 2 blocks that are more quiet. I have no tolerance for these bastards. I live behind 2 bars, and find a way to sleep at night just fine.
Step 1. Get a fan, white noise will drown out most everything
Step 2. Shut your windows
Step 3. If it is still loud, then MOVE. I know it sucks, but bitching and ruining a neighborhood because “you can’t sleep” is a bullshit excuse.
I know 2 people that got mugged right there.
Would’ve been nice if there was some activity after dark to scare the scumbags away.
Wait, tell me again how is this not right in the middle of the city? Its a block away from olive?
@9, 16 –
Being in proximity to Glo’s, Starbucks and a couple of bars, along with bus routes, is not the equivalent of being in one of the “best nightlife areas”.
People who move into the Packard building and complain about noise from the Cuff would be stupid. People who move in across the street from R Place and complain about people outside at night would be stupid. People living off of Olive Way and expecting a modicum of quiet after 10 p.m. are perfectly reasonable.
Shit, let’s be honest with ourselves – Starbucks isn’t loud late at night, Glo’s isn’t even open, Cafe Met is open, but not raucous by any stretch of the imagination, B&O is closed, and further down the way, Bus Stop, Elite, and Amanti are not known for being excessively loud late at night.
Further, skateboard noise is very different from nightlife noise. Let’s pretend you actually know what you’re talking about for a minute with respect to this particular area of Capitol Hill and whether people should be able to expect some quiet late at night – skateboard noise, you have to admit, is much louder and more obnoxious than even the worst clubs over in the Pike/Pine area.
I’m just sayin’, is all.
My bedroom window used to overlook the exit of a bar where people would hang out and smoke and have loud stupid drunk conversations. I had a job and thus needed to sleep. Like # 17, I found white noise to be helpful, but since I was very close to pretty loud bar commotion a fan would not do. So, remembering something I read in “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” I got my little TV and turned it in between channels and truned the volume all the way up. Worked great.
@16,
Missing what point? Even Pike/Pine is dead late on weekdays. Seattle is not a real city. If you want to make a shit ton of noise as though you’re living in a real city, move to one.
@10 and 17
Step 1 – Find Grant Wood
Step 2 – Eat his ass
@ 17 — Fuck. Yes.
@ 18 — Well said.
@ 19 — So there aren’t clubs, fine, but there are bars. I live in this neighborhood. I hear drunken people carrying on every weekend night, even though I live a few blocks from Olive. Maybe it is not club central, but people are still getting drunk and being loud. You should not have missed this when you decided to move here.
@ 21 — Man, you are so edgy.
@ 22 — This guy has the order of operations figured out. Good work, sir!
@23 –
Drunk people, while obnoxious, is not the same noise that skateboard wheels on pavement make. Period. Additionally, based on your argument, the park should move, as there is a very good chance the person who lives there was there first.
Expecting some quiet at 10 p.m. on a weeknight is not a lot to ask for. Expecting enforcement of that is not a lot to ask for (well, in this budget cycle, it kind of is). This is especially so when the park is placed outside the window of multiple apartments, and within half a block of a shitload more.
@24, you’re right, and he perfectly well understands what you mean. He’s a self-troller; don’t feed him.
Yeah fuck skateboards. They should have left the park under the freeway open. Putting a skate ramp near rough sidewalk right across from the newly renovated Starbucks on Denny was stupid as fuck, and they are annoying as shit. Also cock, ass, and tits.
I don’t mind the noise (I own earplugs!) but I do mind getting hit by flying skateboards, which has now happened twice since the park opened, and both were hard enough to leave a bruise. I calmly asked the person both times to please be more careful and was either ignored or mocked without apology. I won’t stereotype all of the skateboarders who use that park that way, but I do wish they’d self-police more.