I am so glad that the commissioners have agreed to build a new library in Leonardtown. The old one is too small, and has no land to be used for additional building.
There are two proposed sites for the new library. One is back in the area of Fenwick Street and Lawrence Avenue in downtown Leonardtown. In the County Times, Tommy McKay made the case for building it there. I believe he said that it would offer easy access from Fenwick Street, and Lawrence Avenue. Those streets are awfully narrow for the increased traffic that would come with putting the library back there! I wonder how the people that live along there feel about that. Also, there is an awful lot of traffic at the light at the corner of Route 245 and Rt. 5 now. This will only increase if the library is built further downtown. The article says there would be plenty of parking, but if the other two county libraries are any indication, there will not be enough parking. I'm not so sure that that is a good place for a library.
I think it would be easier to get to the library if it were build near the new elementary school on the Hayden property. Most of the people that use the current library drive to it themselves. They come from California, Hollywood, and the lower part of Mechanicsville. The Library Board wants the library built there as do many of those that work at the current library. They are the ones who know what is best for the new library because they are so intimately involved with the day-to-day operations.
As an add-on, I had to laugh when the article in the County Times said that if you are coming from the west, you could get to the library by boat. Just how many people would actually do that? Another humorous thing - building a convention center. I could be wrong, but who exactly would have need of a convention center way down here in St. Mary's?
Any-who, what do you think? Where should it go?
There are two proposed sites for the new library. One is back in the area of Fenwick Street and Lawrence Avenue in downtown Leonardtown. In the County Times, Tommy McKay made the case for building it there. I believe he said that it would offer easy access from Fenwick Street, and Lawrence Avenue. Those streets are awfully narrow for the increased traffic that would come with putting the library back there! I wonder how the people that live along there feel about that. Also, there is an awful lot of traffic at the light at the corner of Route 245 and Rt. 5 now. This will only increase if the library is built further downtown. The article says there would be plenty of parking, but if the other two county libraries are any indication, there will not be enough parking. I'm not so sure that that is a good place for a library.
I think it would be easier to get to the library if it were build near the new elementary school on the Hayden property. Most of the people that use the current library drive to it themselves. They come from California, Hollywood, and the lower part of Mechanicsville. The Library Board wants the library built there as do many of those that work at the current library. They are the ones who know what is best for the new library because they are so intimately involved with the day-to-day operations.
As an add-on, I had to laugh when the article in the County Times said that if you are coming from the west, you could get to the library by boat. Just how many people would actually do that? Another humorous thing - building a convention center. I could be wrong, but who exactly would have need of a convention center way down here in St. Mary's?
Any-who, what do you think? Where should it go?