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Tompkins County presents early designs for new Center of Government after public survey
Summary
County staff and project architects summarized results of a community survey and showed three concept designs for a new Tompkins County Center of Government in downtown Ithaca, emphasizing public access, one‑stop services and sustainability targets while soliciting further public feedback.
Tompkins County officials and the project design team on Tuesday presented preliminary building concepts and summarized a community survey to residents as part of a public engagement session on the proposed Tompkins County Center of Government.
The presentation, led by Monica Salvage, communications director for Tompkins County, and Quay Thompson, principal architect at Holt Architects, reviewed early survey results and showed three primary design directions that the team said are intended to balance public access, department operations and historic-district context.
County staff said the survey snapshot used for the presentation had 167 respondents at the time the slides were prepared and that the total had since approached 200. Survey respondents took an average of 24 minutes to complete the questionnaire. The team said the most frequently cited access barriers were parking and difficulty finding the correct building; respondents also requested public restrooms, secure bike parking and community meeting rooms.
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