Resident urges update to Golden Gate Valley Carnegie library landmark report

During general public comment at the April 21 meeting, resident Bridget Maley asked the commission for a status update on a July 2020 landmark designation report she submitted pro bono for the Golden Gate Valley branch library, one of San Francisco's Carnegie-funded libraries designed by Ernest Coxhead.

"This is Bridget Maley. I live 1 block from the Golden Gate Valley branch library," Maley said. She told the commission a nearby project recently approved by the Planning Commission and affirmed by the Board of Supervisors would permanently alter the interior aesthetics of the library's main reading room by blocking light to south-facing windows. Maley asked staff to update the language in the Carnegie library landmark designation reports to explicitly cite "the spatial volume of the main reading room and the natural light afforded to the space by the generous windows at the room perimeter," so future adjacent projects do not cause similar irreversible impacts.

Commissioners asked staff to provide a status report on the nomination at the next commission meeting; staff agreed to prepare an informational update.