Skip to content

Cloverdale Youth Park plans to be unveiled

Canada Day in Cloverdale get a good look at working plans for the new youth park.
37749cloverdalewCYP_Site_Image-01
The new Cloverdale Youth Park will be located at 62 Avenue and 176 Street.

Cloverdale residents heading to Surrey’s Canada Day festivities this Sunday will get a good look at how plans for the new youth park are shaping up.

Anyone interested in learning more about the project is invited to review the working concept plans, and provide input.

The City of Surrey and partners are hosting a public open house July 1 at Cloverdale Millennium Amphitheatre, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The project is expected to break ground in November, with the new Cloverdale Youth Park completed in 2013.

http://raven.b-it.ca/portals/uploads/cloverdale/.DIR288/wJefarnedjad-Shawn.jpgAccording to Shawn Jafarnejad [pictured at left], it will have a covered skateboarding park that will function more like a training facility than an intermediate park.

Jafarnejad, owner of Ollie North Skate Shop in Cloverdale, has been on a mission to overhaul the existing skateboard park. The decade-old park at 17848 64 Avenue is aging badly. It’s covered with cracks and bumps, making it unsafe, particularly for newbies to the sport.

He’s thrilled the overhaul has progressed so quickly. “I can’t believe it,” he said. “Everyone’s making our dream come true.”

He first raised the issue with Surrey mayor Dianne Watts at the official opening of the state-of-the-art Chuck Bailey Youth Park, which was built by New Line Skateparks Inc. and raised the bar substantially in terms of skateboard parks.

“When I said I was going to ask Dianne Watts for a new skateboard park, they said I was crazy; they just built one. They won’t built another for 10 years.”

The new park has lit the imaginations of local skateboarders. About 30 of them, their parents, and skateboarding icon and World Freestyle Round-up promoter Monty Little turned out for a recent public input session with the city.

The site is the northeast corner of 62 Avenue at 176 Street, currently vacant land between the Cloverdale Millennium Amphitheatre and the Cloverdale Recreation Centre, a location chosen because it’s close to residential neighbourhoods, a bus stop, a signalled crossing, and bike and walking pathways.

After Canada Day, residents will still be able to provide input online. Go to OllieNorth.ca to find the link.