- April 1999 Vol. XXVIII No.7
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- CALENDAR
- Thursday, May 13 @ 7:00 pm
- LHG Meeting, Carnegie Building
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- LHG Annual Auction held at the Duarte Garage
- Saturday, May 29
- Doors open at 5 p.m. and dinner is served at 6 p.m. with an auction
beginning at 7 p.m. This is always a fun event and we look forward to seeing
you there.
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- HERITAGE GUILD HAPPENINGS
- The auction will be upon us soon. We need your help. We are looking
for donations for this year's auction at the end of May. It's a good time
to do some spring cleaning and donate those unwanted items to a good cause.
For free pickup call Barbara at 449-9927.
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- Excerpted from Livermore Herald & News, May 1, 1963
- City Estimates Office Space Need for 2000
- With the announcement that 36.5 acres of the 44.5 acre civic center
site would tentatively be used for public buildings in the year 2000, the
city staff released Monday a report oil expected space needs at the center
proposed for the rodeo grounds.
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- The statistical information in the 17 page booklet will be used by
consultants in drafting a long-range plan for development of the civic
center site.
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The public buildings tentatively designed to occupy the larger part of
the site include governmental building, local agency offices, and recreational
facilities. Allowing that 37 years will bring many changes in governmental
structure and architectural design, the result may be requirements for more
or less land, the plan says.
- SINGLE STORY
- Also, the estimate is based on single story development while multi-story
buildings would reduce the site coverage by 50 per cent.
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- The report states that the desirability of city acquisition of all
or a portion. of the 4.5 acres located on the south side of the rodeo grounds,
along South Livermore Avenue should not be overlooked. This land would
provide more major street frontage and more flexibity in the civic center
design.
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- If the staff's space allocation is found to be correct, more acres
in the original site tract could be used for recreation facilities necessary
for the creation of a major district park for the community.
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- SAVINGS
- The report states that a major consideration in the land allocation
is whether the civic center shall be a one story or a two story "Generally
the savings in cost of two Story versus one story construction is not significant."
Good design frequently dictates the provision of more space between two
story buildings, however. And, land space saved could be used for off street
parking, parks or landscaping.
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