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This letter expresses my unequivocal support for the New New Canaan Library project as currently designed, including the removal of the 1913 library.  It appears to me that the Town is applying two different standards concerning the project, which I find to be highly disappointing.  You know the facts.  There is overwhelming support for the project team’s design, hundreds of financial supporters, and a design that looks ahead to the needs of the Town’s residents for the next century.
The New Library team has gone through an extensive, years-long process, following the direction of the Town and, more specifically, the Planning and Zoning Commission.  The additional bureaucratic red tape of conducting a further, unnecessary assessment due to the eleventh-hour protestations of a small minority of residents, who had every opportunity to participate openly in the process at much earlier stages, is wasteful and damages the integrity of the P&Z committ ....

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