I agree with Rhonda that we need to give this project a chance. Many people have worked hard for a community center for years, and that alone shows how much it is needed.
Bob Mason suggested we ask the architect to cap the cost. It is unfortunate that the two primary proposals are so similar, but please remember these are the remaining proposals after many years considering alternatives. There are good reasons why smaller, simpler and cheaper proposals have been found inadequate and rejected. I do not think we should box the architects into a project that has already been researched and dismissed as insufficient for the current and projected needs of the town. Perhaps a compromise would be to ask for the design of one of the two alternatives to be scaled back and one to proceed as currently envisioned? Many people think those two proposals show what kind of building the town really needs, if we are going to give the project a chance, let’s fully design at least one of the ideas. I think the town needs to build the community center at the scale presently called for. Perhaps the best way to make this clear to everyone is to show how many painful compromises are required to scale it back. I trust the good work that has been done over the last decade to get this project to its current stage and I do not believe the town would be happy with a scaled back version. This would require the building committee to make the hard choice about which design to keep and which to scale back. This is exactly the decision which has been difficult to make in the past, and which the pending design study was supposed to clarify. It would be unfortunate to put the building committee into this position, but maybe that is what is required to justify this project to the whole town. -Christopher Eliot Bedford Road -- The LincolnTalk mailing list. To post, send mail to [email protected]. Search the archives at http://lincoln.2330058.n4.nabble.com/. Browse the archives at https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/private/lincoln/. Change your subscription settings at https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/lincoln.
