By Lynne Smith At a public forum on October 10, CCBC reported on the 155 surveys turned in at the September 30 State of the Town (SOTT) meeting. Jonathan Dwyer (the member representing the Select Board) analyzed the ranked first choice results and Sarah Chester described the comments according to various categories such as cost,…
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What’s your opinion about the community center?
This is the first in a periodic series of informal, nonscientific “Lincoln Thinking” polls of Lincoln residents on important issues. Note: you do not have to be a Lincoln Squirrel subscriber to participate; the poll will live in the right sidebar of the Squirrel website, which is available to all. Our first poll is about…
Addendum
In the September 28 story headlined “Community center options readied for SOTT,” the image gallery at the bottom has been updated to include the newest versions supplied by ICON Architects….
Community center options readied for SOTT
(Editor’s note: the image gallery at the bottom of this post was updated on September 29.) After some final tweaks this week, the community center design options are ready for prime time at Saturday’s State of the Town meeting. Meanwhile, some residents are embarking on a fund-raising effort to defray some of the cost. As…
FinCom outlines tax implications for community center
If the town borrows $10 million (for example) to build a community center, Lincoln homeowners can expect a property tax increase of $290–$309 per year, or a hike of 1.7–1.8%, according to the Finance Committee. In a September 18 presentation (14-minute video with slides here; just slides here), FinCom chair Andy Payne outlined what the…
Correction
In the September 14 article headlined “Architects, CCBC refine options for community center,” Option 3 for the community center was incorrectly described and a quote from CCBC member Tim Christenfeld was presented slightly out of context. The article has been corrected and also updated with a new penultimate paragraph describing the upcoming State of the…
Architects, CCBC refine options for community center
(Editor’s note: This article was updated on September 17.) Architects and the Community Center Building Committee this week continued to refine the community center options that residents will see at the State of the Town meeting on September 30, ending Wednesday with three main options plus alternates to two of them. On September 13, ICON…
New rotating-topic format for State of the Town meeting
There are four important topics to be discussed at the State of the Town (SOTT) meeting on September 30, and the Select Board has devised a new way to help residents focus and give feedback on them. Rater than one continuous meeting, there will be four 45-minute repeating rotating sessions in different locations at the…
My Turn: “adaptive reuse” is a good starting point for community center
By Lynne Smith At the August 16 Community Center Building Committee meeting, ICON Architecture presented options for the proposed community center. These options will be sent to an estimator for refined costs. In this article, I will focus on Option 3, Adaptive Reuse, estimated to cost up to $12.5 million. As Lincoln has found in…
Corrections
The August 20 article headlined “Architects zero in on three design options for community center” had several errors: The cost estimates given for the three schemes were the target costs (i.e., the maximum as stipulated by the November 2022 Town Meeting vote). The actual cost estimates are $22.75 million for scheme 1, $18.7 million for…