Sooke Library Update: Site plans ready to be finalized
Work is underway on the construction of a new Sooke library on Wadams Way.
To date, the survey, geotechnical, and environmental work have all been completed, which means our consultants can finalize the site plan.
The Vancouver Island Regional Library’s (VIRL’s) architect is currently working on the design for the new library building. A second public meeting will be held once the design has been set and is ready for public viewing.
Our goal remains to have shovels in the ground this spring and for the new library to open approximately a year later.
In the meantime, the lease is in place at the current branch until December 2019 to ensure that residents of Sooke do not go without library services.
More information will be provided as it becomes available.
Why can’t it have access to the mall? Would be nice to bring the two together.
Eventually all of lot a will be developed. Frankly I would rather not waste the limited land base providing road access through the property. There will be a trail connecting, but I would rather see as much land preserved for community amenities be they a seniors / community centre and a public square.
Huh… A rectangle shaped building with an L shaped parking squished in the corner of the property. Glad the consultants went all in on the design work.
It’s that corner of the property that has been supplied to the library board, eventually it will be part of a larger complex.
As for the design, how about actually seeing it before you comment on the look. That is just a placeholder on a map to give you a rough indication of size. Take a look at recent building that VIPL have built or have put designs out before you write off the project.
You have way more faith in local government to get things done than I ever will!
Would be nice to see mall access through this property to waddams way. It would take more traffic off sooke rd
Disagree that would be a waste of that space. Putting a roadway through would take away from potential community use of that land.
There is already a two lane driveway turning into a trail coming down the side of the library site (in the drawing). Pedestrian connection is there anyway. Would make sense to connect the driveway the whole way to me.
No thanks! More traffic flow will make turning onto Grant Rd from Otter Point and even scarier turn.
That would divert traffic away from that intersection. People living further up otter point and up church rd would be able to access that mall via waddams way. I make that turn at least 4x a day.
The reason the road is not in next to western foods is because some council members previously insisted on putting in a lane, not a road. Waddams way was to be a bypass, WHICH MEANS NO MORE ROADS ONTO TO IT.
I agree Ricky, one should access from the mall , but then i also wish we the taxpayer would have had input in the first place about a library and what we wanted to see,not a closed in VIRL group with NO public input except public money. Wasteful wasteful. We had and still have some awesome opportunities right downtown for a library and multi – use facility.