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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

The city needs to create day shelters for those who seek shelter at night and are kicked out by day, and involuntary commitment for those who insist in living on the streets full time . There was a huge human poop outside the entrance to Wilson Pool last week . There has also been a lot of faeces/human waste in the library parking lot . It's really not good for anyone .[/quote]

A short to medium solution would be for DC to modify shipping containers into micro-housing for homeless people and construct a village, with social support and nighttime security, on the parking areas surrounding unused RFK stadium, a Metro accessible site. While there are long term visions for redevelopment there, this site could accommodate a large number of people while the District works on a longer term solution.[/quote]

They should do this. Not sure why we are allowing people to poop all around libraries and swimming pools. What next - cholera?[/quote]

And next to our schools.  The Wilson pool is next to, well, Wilson HS, and the library parking/dock is next to Janney.  So gross.[/quote]

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