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South Pasadena library/community center site plan moves into public engagement phase
Summary
City library director presented a site-plan phase to study whether to renovate or build a new combined library and community center in Library Park, launching an outreach survey and a series of workshops this spring.
Kathy Billings, director of the South Pasadena Public Library, briefed the Natural Resources and Environmental Commission on a site-plan project that will study whether to renovate the existing library and senior center or build a new combined library and community center in Library Park.
The presentation explained that the site-plan phase will assess space needs, accessibility and historic preservation constraints, and produce a footprint-level site plan that could be used to pursue funding and inform later design work.
Billings said the library building dates from 1983 (with a 1930-facing community room) and has accumulated deferred maintenance and functional limits that hamper modern library and senior programming. "We're really just in a very preliminary, needs assessment and kind of fact finding phase," Billings said, adding that the site plan is intended to document community needs and provide material to potential funders and the City Council.
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