EDITOR: Please do not put the new library downtown. Please build
it by the current library, where the land is already owned and the
locale is already beloved.
EDITOR:
Please do not put the new library downtown. Please build it by the current library, where the land is already owned and the locale is already beloved.
Perhaps there truly are valid arguments for a downtown site that I am simply too unintellectual to grasp. Perhaps there are just dirty politics and big-money pressures behind the scheme. I have no way, really, to know which it is. What I do know is that the library, in its current setting is crowded every time I’m there (which is several times a week, every week) with local folks who seem happy to be there. And I know that lots of people are very passionate about preserving – albeit in a nicer and larger building – that community resource.
Those of us who love our local library love it a lot. That’s a current reality. Please don’t sacrifice that reality on a craps table of hope that a downtown library might be even better.
Developing the other proposed site in a way that enhances our downtown is a worthy goal. But it’s a goal that could be reached in ways that wouldn’t rob our neighborhood of our library.
Personally I think the idea of courting Trader Joe’s to put a store there is a grand one. You could absolutely count on me to shop there, and to continue to patronize our other downtown businesses while I’m at it. Please just don’t sacrifice our library in the pursuit of “synergy” downtown.
Terril Lowe, Morgan Hill
