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Gilroy staff outline civic center master plan that would replace four aging buildings; EIR flags historic loss
Summary
Public Works project manager Ryan Ozington presented a draft civic center master plan to the Parks & Recreation Commission proposing demolition of four aging buildings and construction of a new city hall, multi-generational facility, recreation/aquatic center and a civic park; the draft EIR found a "significant and unavoidable" impact tied to the loss of Wheeler Auditorium.
Ryan Ozington, project manager in Gilroy Public Works, told the Parks & Recreation Commission the civic center master plan would update a 2002 plan for the city’s core campus and guide long-term facilities decisions.
"A civic center master plan is essentially the long-term planning document we use to develop facilities within our footprint," Ozington said, describing a campus footprint bounded roughly by Church Street to Dowy Street and Sixth to Seventh Streets. He said the plan would remove four existing structures — city hall, the annex (former police headquarters), Wheeler Auditorium and the senior center — and replace them with a new city hall, a multi-generational center, a recreation and aquatic facility and a civic park.
Ozington described programming…
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