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City officials will host a public workshop Thursday to reconsider plans to build a community skate park.

Finding a location for the park has been the biggest challenge the city has faced in the two years it has spent on the project, Parks and Recreation Director Steve Rudometkin said.

“We’re looking for locations that are away from homes because of the noise factor,” he said.

Planning Commissioner Jim Pickel, who offered to design the skate park for free, performed a feasibility study more than a year ago that listed three possible locations: Arroyo Park, East Side Community Park and Jasmine West Park.

The City Council chose East Side Community Park but rejected it in October after St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Elementary School, a private school in the neighborhood, opposed the project.