I know where you are coming from. Back a number of years ago I was involved in trying to get a local skatepark built where I lived, the amount of negativety from members of the public and council staff/members was shocking. We where called vandals, hoons (nothings changed ) bums, etc. etc. with Police saying that building the park would increase crims and make the streets unsafe for little old ladies.
I stopped my involvement with the group after 6 or so years of meetings, tours, proposals, votes, cost analysis and so on, the council ended up spending more on investigating the park than building it, but it eventually was built after about 15 years of work by the local skaters.
So it is possible to get things like this done, but how you go about starting it I'm not sure of.