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.
Turns out if you gotta build an elevator and fix up a bunch of things in disrepair it's conceivably a better use of money, though it does cost more than doing the bare minimum, to do it in a more comprehensive design rather than tacking on little changes.
Unelatedly, the high school plan at this stage could very well reclaim an impressive amount of green space from what is now a sea of parking lots in front of the historic facade (replacing it with parking in a part of the hs site that isn't usable green space now either. ) That's not decided, but also a case where in my book thinking big came up with something more awesome than thinking small.
Turns out if you gotta build an elevator and fix up a bunch of things in disrepair it's conceivably a better use of money, though it does cost more than doing the bare minimum, to do it in a more comprehensive design rather than tacking on little changes.
Unelatedly, the high school plan at this stage could very well reclaim an impressive amount of green space from what is now a sea of parking lots in front of the historic facade (replacing it with parking in a part of the hs site that isn't usable green space now either. ) That's not decided, but also a case where in my book thinking big came up with something more awesome than thinking small.
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