Updates

“What was more embarrassing than an empty lot where a new library is supposed to be?" A peeling, faded, several-years-old sign heralding the project. The “Future Home of the Larkspur Library and Community Center” sign was erected a few years after the Doherty Drive lot was set aside by the Rose Lane housing development in 2010. It announced 2015 planning meetings and presided over the 2.5-acre site for years as a symbol of the stalled project until being quietly removed more than a year ago.

The Commons at Larkspur was the focus of a front page article by the Marin IJ of the Redwood High School Architecture class’s designs for a new Larkspur Library Community Center. We want to applaud the students on their designs and creativity.

Larkspur resident Joe Jennings has stepped up to do what nobody has been able to do despite 50 years of trying: build a new city library. Jennings says he envisioned the project’s potential when walking St. Francis Way, from Assisi to Rome, with his wife Marisa. Along the ancient route, every town he entered had a piazza where the old, young and in-between gathered.

Task force kicks off library fundraising A citizen-led task force has been formed to raise money for a new library and community center in Larkspur. The Commons at Larkspur is a proposed project on 2.4 acres of city-owned land on Rose Lane. “It is a very exciting opportunity for our community to create a new gathering place for people, programs and resources to enrich our citizens and grow the sense of Larkspur Village,” Mayor Ann Morrison said in a statement.