Monday, April 17, 2000

Library looks for more parking

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Officials seek to demolish nearby house

BY Cindi Andrews
The Cincinnati Enquirer

        LEBANON — As the city makes plans to save one old house, another may soon face demolition.

        Lebanon library officials are to ask the planning commission for permission Tuesday to tear down a one-bedroom house at 118 S. Sycamore St.

        The house is one of three nearby buildings the library owns, and it needs to go to make room for parking, library director Ray Nienaber said.

        The Lebanon Conservancy Foundation has not taken a stand on the request, but foundation President Marilyn Haley wants more information about the house and its history.

        Mr. Nienaber said the house was built in the 1940s, but Ms. Haley said it may have been constructed earlier and then moved.

        “It's not something that we're doing lightly,” the library director said of the demolition request. “Sometimes there is a small price to progress.”

        The library, catty-corner from City Hall at Broadway and Main Street, has 27 parking spaces and that's not enough, Mr. Nienaber said. Tearing down the house would increase parking to 42 spaces, he said.

        Ms. Haley suggested she might not fight this demolition.

        “I'd love to save every old building, but you have to pick and choose,” she said.

        She is fresh from an apparently successful campaign to block the demolition of an 1808 house at 27 N. Mechanic St.

       

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