The Tarrant Appraisal District says files from 300 residents were posted.
Dallas library leaders hope to turn downtown branch from 'imposing' and 'closed off' into something invitingCredit: Mitchell Parton/Dallas Business JournalUpdated:DALLAS — Dallas' often-criticized central library could eventually get a major overhaul, its first since opening more than 40 years ago — ifLibrary leaders and consultants have proposed significant renovations at the J.
"The library’s exterior is anonymous, with few elements that show that it’s a library and public resource for all Dallasites," library officials and consultants wrote."The building is also imposing to visitors, looming and closed off where it could be welcoming. The spaces leading into Central Library are dark and austere, featuring paving and little else."
"The longer they go without upgrade and replacement, the more likely they are to fail," Jill Eyres, associate principal of Northern California-based Group 4 Architecture, Research + Planning Inc., one of the consultants hired for the library's strategic plan, said in the council committee meeting.
The library system recommends renovations to eight branches, plus the central library, and expansion or replacement of 11 branches. Nine branches would be maintained. Since robust funding in the 2003 and 2006 bond packages, allocations for library capital projects have totaled less than $16 million, according to the report. That has left some projects from the 2000 library master plan unfinished, including replacing the North Oak Cliff and Park Forest branches as well as the renovation of the Preston Royal branch.
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