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Divided P&Z Nears Decision on Library | NewCanaanite.com


New Canaan Library on June 9, 2021. Credit: Michael Dinan
During their seventh hearing on New Canaan Library’s application to rebuild its facility, members of the Planning & Zoning Commission last week set up a vote between two options regarding the fate of what remains of an original library building.
One of them, tagged “Option A” and developed mainly by P&Z Chair John Goodwin, would allow for the library project to commence and, one year in, the organization would present options to P&Z to “appropriately commemorate” the 1913 building and 1936 addition. “It is the assumption that significant aspects of the 1913 and/or 1936 building will be preserved in some meaningful way on the site,” according to the language of the draft approval, obtained by ....

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Moynihan backs 1913 library preservation: "Anything is possible in New Canaan"


Moynihan backs 1913 library preservation: Anything is possible in New Canaan
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The 1913 wing of the New Canaan Library on Main Street is the center of a controversy as residents try to decide if  it should be demolished or not after the new library is built next door to it. Picture taken April 19, 2021.Grace Duffield / Hearst Connecticut Media
First Selectman Kevin Moynihan said he has received “very little feedback,” as of Tuesday, April 20 after he voiced support for preservation of the 1913 New Canaan Library, a topic that has sparked controversy in recent months.
He said the old building has “historic value” during a Planning and Zoning Commission special public hearing, on Thursday, April 15 and that the old building and new 44,000 square proposed building “can coexist.” ....

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