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From the Pacifica Library Foundation flyer. "Join other members of the Pacifica community on May 3rd to learn about the design, site, and features of our new library!
5 – 7pm informal drop in and opportunity to talk with library designers from Group 4 Architecture
7 – 9pm charrette meeting led by Group 4 consultants"
Reference - Pacifica Library Foundation information about the new library.
Announcement article - Pacifica Tribune, 5/1/12.
Posted by Kathy Meeh
11 comments:
Smart is cool? How smart is it to be planning a new state-of-the-art library when we have no money? Who do they think is going to pay for this thing? Who's paying for the "planning"? And, what is wrong with the 2 libraries we have? Maybe the librarians and architects want them replaced but they work pretty well for the rest of us and there are two of them!
"State-of-art- library....no money."
Beach Blvd,1 block project. My guess, mostly the developers will pay. And that leaves 1 or 2 empty city owned properties. Win, win.
you better guess again
Yeah I would say a Library is a very low priority in this crisis. Concentrate on projects that will bring the city income. Then later when things improve think about a new library somewhere else. But that beach blvd project should be all commercial space, no city or government buildings. The land is just too valuable.
Anonymous 7:56 What really will happen is that the pool of potential developers will get smaller. A relatively small site will get smaller,smaller potential profits will = less interest. Developers are not going to pay for the library. the cost will be covered first by a voter approved bond and if the bond measure is written correctly the sale of the two existing library sites. The sale of the sites will cover some of the cost but not all. Also the bond must be shopped in such a way as to allow for early repayment.
That property is this city's state-of-the-art money pit. Over $200K being poured in on this latest vision on top of $300K on that last hallucination. Remember? The new beachfront city hall. So the money comes from some earlier refi of the police station and that somehow makes an outrageous waste of public funds ok? The best welcome mat for potential developers of this prime ocean front property is a blank slate and a genuinely cooperative city. Stop throwing away money!
Welcome mat? What kind of welcome mat is this city extending to the poor schmuck who's trying to build the assisted-living facility on Oddstad? Agenda for the May 14 Council meeting says there's no quorum for the appeal hearing and it should be postponed until June 11 meeting. Unbelievable! Well it was a nice idea but I guess Pacifica doesn't really need any new businesses, jobs, tax revenue, collateral consumer spending, building fees, services, etc. We must be rich and there is no fiscal crisis, right?
Seriously, I hope to hell that developer got a personal call from someone at city hall(probably not from the anti-project mayor), explaining yet another delay.
Voters need to force City Council a deal. If a new library is to be voted on, voters should threaten to vote it out unless the Oddstad Senior housing is built and sale of two library props are sold to private parties for development.
How's that work and why bother? What's being proposed is so preposterous it will go nowhere. Meanwhile, this assinine approach to development of the OWWTP shrinks the profit-potential and the pool of potential developers. And it will waste hundreds of thousands of dollars in public funds. But, hey, don't we look busy!
Let's add to city real estate which can be sold by outsourcing the police which will free up much of that barn of a police station. The sheriff's dept won't need much. Then move city hall and the offices on Francisco to the police station. That frees up a huge parcel for sale and development. City employees would have a better work place and a central location for city offices. City Council meetings at the community center.
Anon 136 There may be some restrictions on what those library properties can be used for by the buyer. Particularly the Sanchez property. Doesn't mean they can't be sold and developed within whatever restrictions exist.
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