| Hello everyone! I don’t know if you have heard, but the Laramie County Library System recently won the necessary funds to build a new library complex on the 400-500 blocks of W. 23rd Street in Cheyenne. I have a problem with the plan: the 400 block is the one my parents live on, along with about 35 other people. I spent the latter part of my childhood living at 415 W. 23rd St in Cheyenne (the big yellow house in the middle of the block, with the apple tree and the pretty flower garden in the front yard). Even though I've lived in New Mexico for the past five years, that house is still home to me. I recently visited the Laramie County Library System's website to try to ascertain why they chose to build the parking lot for the library where my parents' house and several others now stand. I figured that they must have a pretty good reason to displace my parents and their neighbors. The information on the LCLS website was obtuse at best; I could find nothing on the website that indicated the fact that homeowners and renters will be displaced by the proposed project, and the LCLS didn’t present any reasons for choosing this particular site over the 50 total sites that they supposedly reviewed. I wonder if people in Cheyenne were made aware, when they voted on the tax increase necessary for the new library’s funding, that more than 35 people would be forced to leave their homes to build the new library. For more information on the project and its impact on the residents of the 400-500 blocks of W. 23rd Street in Cheyenne, please visit my sister Claudia's website: http://geocities.com/anonymousrobot/library.html Thanks! BACK |