Somerville West Branch Library Renovation/Garden Destruction

[jbcampbe]

Greetings Davisonians

Comments

[ron_newman]

I would like to preserve as much greenery as possible, but I'd also like to see the library become more useful as a place for authors' readings and performances of all kinds. There is no reason at all to care about traffic or parking issues, since the Red Line is right there and so are many bus lines and the Community Path. I hope an agreement can be reached that gives us both greenery and a performance space.

[pekmez]

My impression from the meeting I went to was that the plaza architecture and the addition were much more about getting a lot of valued improvements in conjunction with the primary minimum goal of making the space ADA accessible from street level -- while preserving the historic portion of the building and the front steps and having the whole landscape and building be visually and architecturally workable

[chenoameg]

I concur.

[ceo]

I was going to say, I looked over the plan and have nothing bad to say about it. Some of the landscaping options include eliminating the staff parking lot and making it green space.

[laryu]

That was my impression as well. Seems like a viable plan to me.