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C <br />� • Of R� <br />�° Town of Reading <br />��� �� �r Meeting Minutes <br />Board - Committee - Commission - Council: <br />Board of Library Trustees Library Building Committee <br />Date: 2014-05-12 <br />Building: Reading Public Library <br />Address: 64 Middlesex Avenue <br />Purpose: To Attend Neighborhood <br />Information Session <br />Attendees: Members - Present: <br />Time: 7:30 PM <br />Location: Meeting Room <br />Session: <br />rLCEtVfU <br />OWN CLERK <br />,',LING. M;,SS. <br />Z11111 MAY 21 A05i <br />Building Committee: David Hutchinson, Chair; Rachel Baumgartner, Vice - <br />Chair; Cherrie Dubois, Secretary; Bob Newton, Ruth Urell, Library Director. <br />Trustees: David Hutchinson, Acting Chair; Alice Collins, Secretary; Cherrie <br />Dubois, Vicki Yablonsky <br />Members - Not Present: <br />Others Present: <br />Evan Warner, STV; Chris Coios, CBT Architects; Lorraine Barry, Librarian; <br />Jamie Penney, Librarian; and members of the public <br />Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: Ruth Urell, Building Committee Member <br />Topics of Discussion: <br />Library Neighborhood Information Session <br />Call to order <br />Chairman Hutchinson called the Library Building Committee and the Library Trustees to order <br />at 7:35 p.m. <br />Welcome <br />David Hutchinson and Librarians Urell, Penney, Barry welcomed people and provided a very <br />brief intro to the overall project. <br />Presentation of Building and Site Plan by CBT Architects (Chris Coios) <br />Christos Coins, CBT Architects, reviewed site plan, designs, elevations, utilities & <br />connections, lighting buffers on east and west and showed pedestrian pathways. He explained <br />parking options studied and showed slides of School Street angle parking and Middlesex <br />Avenue ninety -degree parking. He described those options as unsafe as they required either <br />increasing parking density on a quiet residential street (School Street) or causing traffic <br />conflicts with cars backing into Middlesex Avenue from angled parking. He showed draft <br />design of a driveway/curve that would enter on the east side from Middlesex Avenue and exit <br />onto School Street to provide a few parking spaces and a drop-off point but did not pursue that <br />option as the grade on School St. side of site is too steep for safe travel. He also showed a draft <br />drawing of adding a curve driveway along Middlesex Avenue but dismissed that option as <br />Page 1 1 <br />