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# Public invited to discuss new $45 million Santa Monica library
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/public-invited-to-discuss-new-45-million-santa-monica-library/
- Published: 2001-11-13T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-22T22:26:16.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Government & Politics, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Daily Press Staff*

The Santa Monica City Council and the library board will hold a special joint meeting to discuss the new main library tonight.

The public is invited for the presentation and to discuss the initial conceptual plans with Moore Ruble Yudell Architects & Planners and with Library and City staff.

Moore Ruble Yudell was selected to design the new main library in 2000 following passage of Proposition L by Santa Monica voters in 1998.

The Santa Monica-based firm has built, expanded, and renovated several libraries, including the Powell Library and the Hugh and Hazel Darling Law Library at the University of California, Los Angeles campus; the Fairchild Engineering and Applied Science Library at the California Institute of Technology; and the Humboldt Library in Berlin, Germany.

The Santa Monica library plan being proposed would be 104,000 square feet and is expected to cost $49.5 million. About $45 million of that are included in the city’s capital improvements program, with the remaining funds to be appropriated in next year’s budget.

The meeting begins at 6:45 p.m. in council chambers at Santa Monica City Hall, 1685 Main Street.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on November 13, 2001.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/111301.pdf?ref=smdp.com)