Steve,

look, above someone posted evidence that tennis is now less popular that skateboarding.

that's apparently not enough for you. it's the "range" of people that use a facility? so facilities used by a tiny but "wide" range of people, like tennis courts,are ok to support with public dollars, but not facilities like skateboarding parks used by a large but "narrow" range?

sure, SDCs and property taxes by people *immediately* next to a park. that is irrelevant to this discussion.

your basic point is that you want to discriminate against one segment of our population--12-25 year old males (not 'exclusively' by the way--you really need to go down to the burnside park and see who uses is).