Two decades have passed since a group of teens approached Lehi City to ask for a skate park.

Those skateboarders, now pushing 35 years old, will soon be able to teach their kids how to skate like their dad at their dream park.

Council members on Tuesday night unanimously approved $500,000 in funding for a community skate park, and to contract with Spohn Ranch Inc., a professional skate park design and construction company.

“This will be our first one. In the future, who knows? We’ll see what comes of this one,” said Steve Marchbanks, Lehi Parks Department manager.

The funding will come from the city’s impact fees.

“I am excited to complete this park. I think Lehi kids have waited a long time now,” said Beau Thomas, who works in city management analytics.

Spohn Ranch will be tasked to find a location, and design and build the project. The international company has designed and built skate parks for Daybreak in South Jordan and Provo, as well as across the nation and in Norway.

In 2001, the final details for a skate park in Lehi were being decided and in preparation for anticipated construction, former councilman Johnny Barnes organized interested kids to clean up property north of the city’s rodeo grounds on 500 West.

Even at that time, skate park committee member Rick Jensen said the kids had been interested in building the park for several years.

“The kids didn’t get anywhere with their plans about four years ago, so they gave up,” Jensen said in 2001. “Over the last few years there have been several different kids interested in the skate park.”

“One of the problems was everybody wanted a skate park, but nobody wanted it in their backyard,” said Councilman Johnny Revill on Tuesday, recalling the work that was done in the early 2000s.