The slice of property on the town's east side is part of the seven hectares of yet-to-be-developed parkland near the fieldhouse.

 This agreement caps months of meetings between town officials and skateboard enthusiasts to get a consensus on a site for a permanent skateboard park.

 "What we believe is that by creating a permanent park it will be something that will be very enticing, very interesting for the area," said Ida Scott of the Bridgewater Development Association. Skate Bridgewater is a sub-committee of the association and spearheaded the lobbying effort.

 "This will be a facility which everyone will be proud of," Ms Scott said in a presentation last week to Bridgewater town council as a gallery filled with 'boarders and parents looked on.

 Ms Scott anticipated the skate "plaza" will blend in well with the recreational property named Generations' Active Park.

 Earlier this year, town councillors, including the mayor, spoke positively about the potential of putting the skate park on business park land neighbouring the future home of the Lunenburg County Lifestyle Centre.

 But Mayor Carroll Publicover said there were too many hurdles in the way that would have slowed the immediacy of a such a park.

 Private landowners had been contacted about offering possible temporary sites. The South Shore Exhibition was a temporary site until the last year or so. In 2006, Bridgewater was close to nailing down a permanent skate park site on north King Street but the plan was scrapped when residents objected.

 "They need to get going and they've had so many setbacks," the mayor added.

 "They got excited about Generations' Active Park as a possibility and Parks, Recreation and Culture recommended it and I felt I needed to get on that bandwagon as well."

 It's wholesome pastime the town should support, he said.

 While the town committed money toward the project, the designation of land for the skate park also clears the way for the Municipality of Lunenburg to release money it earmarked. Corporate donations and other government funding will be pursued, Ms Scott said.

 Supporting the lobby for the park was British Columbia-based skate park designer Jim Barnum, who was in the area to speak later in the week at a conference. Ms Scott introduced him and he made a presentation about benefits of skateboarding and how it fills a recreational need in communities.