The Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved the transfer of two parcels of county land as part of a plan for a new Pleasant Hill library and 34 new two-story houses.
The supervisors voted to turn over a 3.65-acre section of land to the city of Pleasant Hill – at no cost – to be the home of the new Pleasant Hill library. The new library is tentatively scheduled to open in June 2022.
The old library, the Contra Costa Library System’s largest and busiest, is set to close June 3.
At the same time, the supervisors approved the sale of another segment of the 15-acre property to the Pleasant Hill Recreation and Park District, which eventually will build sports fields there. The park district will pay $4 million for that land. Also, during a special meeting Monday night, the Pleasant Hill City Council approved the entitlements and conditions of approval for the development of the 34-unit subdivision.
The plan to demolish the old library before the new one opens had been opposed by a local group, but the supervisors voted in March to stick with the plan to close the old library in June. Supervisors said keeping the old library open longer would be costly, and would disrupt the plan between the county, city, park district and school district.
There will likely be plans for a “virtual celebration” of the old library, built in 1961.
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I see this is a model picture along with some other pictures available on their site. Kind of unfortunate. Looks like an Apple store. I liked the old one with the deep in the stacks feel, cold utilitarian look, and with the smell of decaying books. I guess I don’t like change.
I wish Concord would build a new one it was built in the 50’s & has outgrown the population
J.
That shack was home to the Pleasant
Hill Police Department before they moved
to their current location. Later it was a
Playhouse for local theater productions.
It sure would be great to see a picture of it!
Can’t keep the library open, we gotta get cracking on those high density townhouses! Money before all, after all!
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