Friends of the new New Canaan Library and Green

If anyone tuned into last nights P&Z meeting you are probably feeling outraged. Despite the plans being presented eloquently by the New Canaan Library architects and lawyers and providing fact based and credible responses. Disappointingly P&Z dodged having to make a decision, Chairman John H. Goodwin requested that the library find an independent consultant to scrutinize the work already done by Turner Construction.

To date the New Canaan library has raised $17M for this plan and has a 144 year history of stewardship of the institution. In the last 12 months the New Canaan Library have spent $3M on getting these plans up to code. In addition they paid $4M to acquire all the land over the previous 10 years. The land is not town property, it belongs to them and now they have to find and pay additional costs for a consultant to check on work already checked, further delaying this project.

The P&Z commissioners vote of no confidence in the integrity, diligence and generosity of the Library may derail this project for at least another generation. Some commissioners, referencing the “will of the community” seem to be ignoring the facts - the majority of New Canaan residents and businesses want this plan to go ahead without further delay. In less than two weeks, a true groundswell of 1,633 supporters have signed the petition for the new library and library green to go ahead as planned. Twice as many as have signed the petition to save to 1913.

The New Canaan Library provides an incredible service to the town of New Canaan, Connecticut and the promise of bringing something so wonderful to downtown is a gift to all generations. Please continue to sign and share the petition and watch the voices of our future ask our leaders to get this thing done without further delay: http://chng.it/JctrVHXdWL

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