Should skateboarding be illegal with the population of the sport?

1. I'm passionate about studying this topic because I know there is an economic value in it even though its illegal.

2. I know its one of the fastest growing sports

. " The Bill proposed to expand Section 1, Title 10 of the Philadelphia Code to include new penalties of $2,000 and up to 90 days in jail for skateboarding on public art, monument and memorial.'

"positive economic effects of Philadelphia hosting the 2001/2002 X-Games are without question — tens of thousands of hotel room stays, international media coverage, and millions of dollars worth of retail and food sales to 250,000 people visiting the city for one or more days. Skateboarding-related tourism will continue to be a draw for the City long after the X-Games."

there are three important long-term benefits associated with fostering Philadelphia's reputation as the international center of an interconnected skateboarding and arts culture:

1)Increased enrollment in local colleges and universities,

2)new businesses catering to a growing population of artists and skateboarders, and

3)the ability to draw into the City the big businesses and new media enterprises that are banking on the continued profitability of skateboarding culture as part of the American cultural mainstream.