Editor’s note: This letter is in response to the February 17 letter to the editor by Peter Sugar headlined “Campus report pays ‘little attention’ to previous work.”
To the editor:
As a resident of this town since 1998, I have come over the years to have an appreciation for the Lincoln Way in all its strengths and weaknesses. Its biggest strength is its inclusiveness and spirit of genuine community engagement. Its weakness is that when compromise is required because we just can’t address everyone’s concerns, the Lincoln Way struggles.
With the school addressing the concerns of every interested group, it resulted in a building that very few of us like—large, sprawling across the landscape, and very expensive. In at least one iteration, internal circulation problems, created by a footprint that addressed everyone’s building footprint concerns, were solved by adding another cafeteria.
What I particularly liked about the Campus Master Planning Committee report is that it distills a very complicated problem to a set of options that each represent a set of tradeoffs. It’s a great approach—it keeps the spirit of the Lincoln Way and gives us a way out of the logjam. I thank all the people who volunteered large amounts of time and energy to the CMPC report and commend them for the approach they took.
Sincerely,
Margaret Olson
17 Boyce Farm Rd.
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