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More Library Parking Available at Thorndal Circle, and to Make It Easier, Some Sidewalks Coming
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Darien Library and the company that owns the office park at Thorndal Circle have agreed on a plan where more parking will be provided to library users during weekdays when the library lot fills up. (When the library was moved from Leroy Avenue to its present location on the Post Road, library officials didn’t realize how much more popular the new building would be. More people came to use the library, which meant that when there were particularly popular events being held, the parking lot filled up to an extent that officials hadn’t predicted, library officials have said in the past.)
For about 10 years, since the library moved to its current location, there’s been an agreement that library users could park in lots at Thorndal Circle on evenings an weekends, library Director Alan Gray said at a recent Planning and Zoning Commission meeting. The commission approved the plan in a unanimous vote. The new agreement, he said, would allow for the use of 60 or so spaces at certain parking lots in the office park during the day on weekdays for those few times a week when library events become so popular that the library lot, with 181 parking spaces, gets filled up.