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Surprise, surprise. You actually can fight city hall and win, if not a total victory, at least a reprieve from some new insanity being inflicted on your neighbourhood.

More than 500 people in the northwest community of Edgemont have signed a petition to keep the city from building a permanent skateboard park near their houses. Good for them. Who the hell wants a skateboard park close to their homes? The Edgemont Community Association begs to differ, however. It supports the park. That’s its prerogative, of course.

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But you don’t have to be a curmudgeonly geezer — the kind who yells out his window, “Hey, you kids, get off my lawn!” — to object to a skateboard park. You only have to be a young mother trying to get a colicky baby to nap or seeking some rest herself, a shift worker who needs to sleep during the day, a patient convalescing from surgery who needs some peace and quiet, or just someone who wants to sit out on their deck and enjoy the songs of birds in nearby trees.