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Children in Calgary will soon be able to legally skateboard on ramps in their own backyards— as long as it’s before 10 p.m.— after council modified a decades-old bylaw on Monday.

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But not all councillors were in favour of welcoming the approximately 60-decibel clang of skateboards into local backyards, for fear it’s just too much noise.

Councillors voted 10-5 in favour of ending a bylaw from 1986 that Coun. Evan Woolley said unfairly discriminated against people who partake in one of North America’s most popular sports.

Calgary outlawed backyard ramps in the mid-1980s over concerns the wooden structures were dangerous, unsightly and noisy.

Some 30 years later, at Monday’s meeting, some councillors said the ban should remain.

Coun. Andre Chabot told council though his daughter used a skateboard as her primary means of transportation for many years, he couldn’t support having ramps in backyards.

“I’m challenged with having it at a residential level, just on the basis of a number of complaints I’ve heard,” he said.

“This is just going to exasperate things…I can’t support this, though I certainly appreciate the intent.”

Coun. Ward Sutherland said the noise from kids practising on ramps is much different than other backyard activities.