A tranny, hub up, bowl, deck, coping, half-pipe, grinding – if you weren’t a skateboarder and attended Monday’s meeting on the design phase of the new skate park to be built at Tibbetts Valley Park, you may have been a bit confused.

But skateboarders have a language all their own – and they know what they want to have a fun, challenging and safe park.

Micah Shapiro, with Grindline Concrete Skatepark Design and Construction of West Seattle that was chosen to design the park, updated the audience on the plans. A meeting on July 9 will finalize the design.

About 20 people attended the meeting – the majority skaters. Issaquah Parks and Recreation manager Brian Berntsen said that during the site selection, many of the younger kids who came to the meetings were silent for the most part. However, now that their language is being spoken, they’re totally engaged.

Competitive skater Austin Fischer said the design was challenging given the space allotted. The new park will be somewhere between 8,000 to 10,000 square feet, larger than the old park which is 5,600 square feet.

Larger trees will be removed along the parking lot side for a viewing area with benches and a couple of picnic tables.

Flow was important to the skaters, so Shapiro designed it to have access from all sides. Given that Newport Way Northwest borders the park to the north, Shapiro had to keep it simple in that area so boards don’t go flying off into traffic. A three-foot tall outer wall could be a place for a sign or mural related to the park.

The park will feature one volcano, which looks like it sounds. The distance to the top of the volcano is 31/2 to 4-feet. The distance from the top to the bottom of the bowl is about 6-feet.

Materials will be a mix of colored and regular concrete. Steel edges, or coping, will be used on the top of the bowl to avoid wear on the concrete.

Shapiro said the design combines both good transitions (trannys) and street elements. The skaters in attendance made a few suggestions, which he said would be easy to accommodate.

Once the design is final, the project will go out to bid. Grindline plans to bid, but Shapiro said even if the company is not chosen, they will oversee the construction since it’s their design.

The park is scheduled to open in June 2015.

A rendering of what the skate park at Tibbetts Valley Park will look like.