Pacifica Tribune/Letters to the Editor, print edition, 10/19/16. "Good investment" by Cynthia Sevenants.
I live in Park Pacifica and I frequent Sanchez Library when I can get there after work. Of course, I have to remember that it's closed on Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays and is only open late on Mondays (if there isn't a holiday). How convenient that our new library will be open seven days a week.
Sanchez may be convenient (when it's open) but it's a rather sad building with everyone on top of each other because there is no 'real' room for children's activities, teens and adults to spread out. And Sharp Park-- the musty, moldy smell is enough to get us folks with allergies wheezing in no time.
Libraries speak volumes about who we are as a community. Are we small and run-down? Do we stay stuck with the status quo and fall behind the times? Do we stay stuck with the status quo and fall behind the times? Or are we proud Pacificans that believe in and are willing to invest in a 21st century library that will be capable of providing the services that will allow our community to continue to thrive? Measure N invests in a quality library in our beloved Pacifica. I hope you join me in voting Yes."
Reference. City of Pacifica, proposed new library. Related. Libraries. Facebook (some activities). Sharp Park, Sanchez. Support organizations. Pacifica Library Foundation. Facebook. Note graphics. "Yes on N" from Our Library Our Pacifica, FPPC#1359429. Sq. graph from Library Foundation FAQS.
Posted by Kathy Meeh
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I get a kick out of the people who somehow find their way to city council meetings so they can complain that they'll have no way to get to the new library if Sanchez is closed. The irony that they're standing 100 yards from the location of the new library when they make these complaints appears to be lost on these poor souls.
Then there are all those people who CAN'T get to city council meetings who are upset that they won't be able to get to the new library if their library at Sanchez is closed. At least the people who make the effort to show up at council meetings are there to speak up.
The problem is quite simply, the NOBY's don't want a Library, a walkable and inviting downtown, development of the Old Waste Water Treatment P,lant on Beach Blvd. or anything else that would generate revenue and tourism. They've GOT THEIRS and they don't want anyone else in the way of their selfish elitist agenda and the ultimate destruction of this part of Pacifica in the name of Sea Level Rise and Managed Retreat.
Those opposed to a new library will get their just desserts when Sanchez is closed anyway due to lack of funding (because the JPA provides funds for a single library). When the JPA spigot is turned off, Sanchez will be shuttered, and we'll all be left with a totally inadequate Sharp Park library because a bunch of dummies fought the good fight and prevented a dastardly library from going in. No wonder Pathetica is the laughing stock of the peninsula.
"The problem is quite simply, the NOBY's don't want a Library..."
There are actually a few of us fiscally minded people out here who simply believe Pacifica can't afford this $40 million dollar pipedream for the handful who don't know how to use the Internet or are looking for a nifty hangout. Certainly there are higher priorities for the money we should have had (if managed properly) including undergrounding utilities, sewer and water infrastructure repairs, street repairs, ocean erosion control, backlogged park maintenance, etc. Don't make this a NOBY/extreme environmentalist issue. In fact, I remember former NOBY guru and mayor Jim Vreeland proposing a penthouse library at the old sewer plant site where the kiddies could whale watch while reading about them.
Hey 6:04, did you ever notice there's always a reason not to build anything in Pacifica. Always. And then the people like you who are against everything always say "oh no, no, I'm not against everything, I'm just against THIS project." Repeat for every...single...project.
If the library project is defeated, will you and all your NOBY friends high-five each other and celebrate that you prevented a library from being built? Woo-hoo, we did it! No new library for Pacifica! Yay! A big win for Pacifica!
"This isn't a NOBY/extreme environmentalist issue, it's just that I'm opposed to everything and anything that isn't street repair or park maintenance," said the extreme environmentalist NOBY.
So Anna Boothe is suing the city because of the library resolution. She's also the same sue happy person who threatened to sue the city if they didn't appoint her as Pacifica's poet laureate. Her signs all say fix city streets. Maybe someone should clue her in that those are apples and oranges and in no way are they tied together.
The NOBY's simply refuse to understand how communities have worked throughout history and all over the world.
Town centers, parks, libraries, churches, public buildings and sport arenas have always served as important and compelling community gathering spots.
These amenities have always fostered face to face communication and the foot traffic that is universally required to stimulate and support commerce.
The NOBY's think that everyone shares their view on what is community and what constitutes a sound economy.
Funds for street repairs, infrastucture repairs, health and safety services do not magically appear out of thin air. Smoking a bowl in a drum circle, sitting on a cliff watching the sunset and self congratulation for picking up cigarette butts on the beach are all fun things but sooner or later you have to get back to the mundane business of running a city of 38,000 people.
Will the adults in this community please stand up?
Pacifica residents can go to modern libraries in Daly City or South San Francisco and save $33,000,000.
Pacifica residents can go to modern libraries in Daly City or South San Francisco and save $33,000,000.
And while they're over there they can stop, shop, and eat at restaurants in Daly City or South San Francisco too! With thinking like yours, it's no wonder Pacifica is in a perpetual state of decay.
ah, if only other people would pay for everything. Pacifica would be the perfect enviro economy... broke with free parking for our free trails..
I invoke the Lancelle clause, Colma should send a portion of their tax revenue to Pacifica because we shop over there! Redistribution of wealth only a uber-liberal can love. Why don't we just build something here that will draw people from Colma. Short of the car lots and graveyards, we trump them with our ocean. Come on people, figure it out.
Fairmont's new Safeway is drawing people over the hill.If Kimco fills all the vacancies ,Fairmont Shopping Center, there will be no open parking spaces available.Hickey and Gateway will be a log-jam when 7 Eleven opens,also.Some of Serramonte traffic will be drawn to Pacifica
Fairmont's new Safeway is drawing people from over the hill.If Kimco fills vacancies, Fairmont Shopping Center,there will be few open parking spaces available.When 7-Eleven opens,traffic at Hickey Blvd & Gateway Drive will be a log-jam like Serramonte.
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