Aside from screeching car horns and loud motorcycle engines, the future sounds of the Octavia Street underpass will also produce noises of skateboard wheels screaming across the pavement as the city works to construct a place where people can display their jumps and turns with a new public skate park.

The proposed project, called Soma West, will include a skate park, café, dog park and public art area along Duboce Avenue and Stevenson Street and will start construction in June of 2010, according to the San Francisco Skateboarding Association.

"We have built over 125 skate parks," said Kyle Dion, founder of New Line Skate Parks, Inc and contractor for the new skate park.

"We love what we do and we're out there to change the approach to skate park design and architecture." Dion's company also constructed and designed Rob Dyrdek's personal skate park warehouse, featured on MTV's hit show, "Rob Dyrdek's Fantasy Factory

Dion believes that the new space will look and feel like the streets of San Francisco.

"The design will be a street-style plaza with limited quarter pipes," said Dion.

"We do a lot of research and merge the best aspects of each design format for that particular setting we work upon."

Confident in his company, Dion vowed to make sure San Francisco skateboarders will be beyond pleased with the end result.

With all of these ideas for the new park, San Francisco Skater Association is not completely satisfied with the amount of time it has taken to be built.

"As for why it's taken the city 30 years to get off its ass and build (a skate park), well, that has to do with red tape, real estate, government corruption, lack of interest and a whole lot of other bullshit, mostly money-related," said Bryan Hornbeck, president of the SFSA. "Nothing moves fast enough."

Because of seismic damage from the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, the Central Freeway was taken down to create a new roadway to enter Highway 101 and Interstate 80 via Octavia Boulevard, which was completed in 2005. The result has been a revitalization of Octavia Boulevard, where the new park will exist.

"It's not just the skate park they are putting up," said Hornbeck. "They are revitalizing the surrounding community with new roads and so on. We are waiting for those plans to come though first."

The California Department of Transportation manages all freeway, highway and road property in the state. The space underneath the overpass is owned and maintained by CalTrans and is currently being used for parking.

"In order to pay for the construction of the skate park, the city must sell parcels of land, north of Market, along Octavia Boulevard," said Alex Murillo of the city's Department of Public Works.

Murillo mentioned an agreement that was made between CalTrans and the city in the 1990s, where San Francisco would be responsible for Octavia Boulevard and CalTrans would oversee the highway. Once the skate park is built the city will lease the lot from CalTrans.

Despite the opening of Potrero Del Sol skate park last summer and the proposal of the new Soma West skate park, many say that there still aren't enough places for locals to skate safely and without being hassled.

"When Potrero was built, it didn't really cater to a street skater," said 21-year-old street skater, Gerardo Penicci, as he kicked his board around the busy Potrero sidewalk. "SF skaters like their street spots, there are just a lot of quarter pipes and not many ledges or banks to skate."

While San Francisco traffic code section 100 prohibits skateboarding on any city street, at any time, on any sidewalk, the demand for finding places to skate still remains a problem, as well as the safety of the skaters as they continue to practice on the streets.

"Local businesses are spending money to stop skateboarding and repair damages," Hornbeck said. "Young people forced into confrontations with police and security, are issues that fall on the safety of skaters and the general public."

"There are just not enough places to skate in San Francisco. The skateboard community is underserved here and the city needs to facilitate this growing sport," Hornbeck said.

Even though the city is working to build the new skate park for the community, others are skeptical on how it will be made and what it will offer.

"Let's make sure we get the park we want this time," said Keith Hufnagel, professional skateboarder and owner of Huf, a shoe store with skater influences, on Sutter Street.

Some skaters are excited to see how this project will turn out in the next year.

"I'm excited to see how it all turns out," said Garth Bedinger, a DLXSF sales rep and 20-year veteran skater.

"It will be convenient for me to get here and not worry about getting hassled by cops or security guards for skating," added Bedinger, who lives close to the developing project on Duboce Street.