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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is it necessary to take playground space to add a residential building? Maybe they add fewer floors and decrease the need for adjacent space?

Or advocate for the increased development by the old car dealership?

I don’t think the NIMBY approach is very productive.[/quote]

Whether they add 2 or 10 floors on top of the library, they will have to build a separate entrance, elevator and stair access, loading and freight/refuse dock, etc.  This will require taking space on the west (ie. Janney) of the building, with the entrance on Albermarle St.[/quote]

At this point they may as well make it another homeless shelter as that is who lives in the library day in day out.[/quote]

It shouldn’t be a homeless shelter.  The library needs to have the balls to remove people who loiter there all day.[/quote]

Seems like there would be a lot less need to kick people out if there were another place for them to go--like homes! But also if they aren't doing anything against library rules they have as much right to be there as you do. It's a public library, not a country club. The fact that you spent a lot of money to live nearby doesn't mean you bought the right to have poor people keep their distance from you.[/quote]

One way to discourage homeless people from camping out in the library all day is to put at the entrance one of those bag-sizing baskets that the airlines use.  If the bag exceeds the basket size, it doesn't come in the library.  Period.[/quote]

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