The Planning Board will consider a proposal to turn a vacant lot in north Hamilton into the Island’s first outdoor skateboard park.The plan is the brainchild of Darren Booth, who is well known among the skateboarding community here as the owner of the Washington Mall store The Booth.“I got involved because people wanted a skate park, but nobody seemed bothered to do anything about it,” said Mr Booth, who does not skateboard himself but says he enjoys the lifestyle associated with the hobby.Mr Booth’s Urban Park Association recently reached an agreement with the Corporation of Hamilton to lease the vacant lot on Canal Road across from the Holmes Williams and Purvey parking lot.Under plans submitted this month, the land would be regraded, paved and outfitted with an assortment of skateboarding ramps and obstacles.There are also plans for seven-foot tall half pipe which could be used by two or three skateboarders at once.Mr Booth said he hoped the park could give the Island’s youth “another place to go” and is confident that it would not go unused.“We’ve had an indoor skate park in Sandys for the last five months, so we know from that it’s quite popular. You often have 50 to 70 kids up there on a weekend,” said Mr Booth.“We’ve been working on it for quite awhile. We’re sort of at the point we’re just about ready to raise funds.”Mr Booth said he is working to secure charitable status for the Urban Park Association to help attract funding for the park.He added that the Association would be willing to give naming rights to the park to a major sponsor.Mr Booth estimates that construction of the skate park would cost around $40,000.