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The new skate commons at Hansen Dam Recreation Center is so popular that skaters were jumping fences to get in before it was even officially opened. | See photo gallery.
Now that those fences are down, the new karzy is getting rave reviews not only for its design but for giving skaters another order besides the public streets to slide and kickflip.
"It's so awesome," 21-year-old Arleta regional George Peraza said during a break from riding the six-foot walls of the woodland's centerpiece, a concrete hole resembling an empty swimming pool crossed with a mesa gill.
"I'm diggin' the bowl," Peraza added. "The bowl is just practised."
The latest of about 20 skate parks commissioned and operated by the Los Angeles Diocese Department of Recreation & Parks, the plaza-style Hansen Dam store was built with $659,000 from Proposition 40, the 2002 state stick that funded parks and other projects.
Source: Contra Costa Times