The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-23
LIBRARY BOARD PLANS MEETING
 TO MAP COURSE
Ramsay Plan Partially Approved By City
 Planning Board

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 the park site or submit to the recon mendations could not be learned.
 The planning boards report, made public Monday morning. urged against the use of the park site and recom mended a location just outside the park on the south end of the block between Nineteenth and West Twentieth streets The veto of the park site had been fore cast in an exclusive story in Sunday editions of The Age-Herald.
 The so-called Ramsay civic center plan was not adopted, but was partially approved. If the library site recom- 1nended is found to be too high, the board suggests the use of the lot now oc- cupied by the board of education building.
 To Study Report
 Findings of the board will immediately be studied by the city commission, the board of revenue and the park and recre- ation board, as well as by the library board.
 The planning body's report, submitted to the city commission and revenue board after several months inquiry, follows in full:
 "The civic center planning board was created by a concurrent resolution of your respective bodies during the month of October, 1924, in substance as fol- lows:
 Therefore be 1t resolved, to take steps jointly for the purpose of planning a civic center that will be of lasting beauty and usefulness, by the creation of a planning board of not less than five and not more than seven members, whose work for this community has in- dicated their patriotic interest, which shall have as it's duty to take into con- sideration the future needs and growth of this community for Capitol Park Square, and to recommend back to the board of revenue and to the city com mission the adoption of a plan for the placing of the proposed county court house and other buildings to be erected now or in the future around this square; two members of such board to be chosen by the board of revenue and two mem- bers to be chosen by the city commis- sion, and the remaining members of not over three, the members to be decided by the said respective appointees, to be chosen by the said appointees; such board to be empowered to avail itself of professional advice and to be charged with the duty of consulting with and working with the city park board, the library board and other official boards whose interest is vitally concerned with this work; the expenses which such board finds is necessary to incur and the expenses of such professional ad- vice to be borne equally by this county and the city, reserving to the county and the city the right to ratify any proposed expenses before they are in cured.
 Committee Named
 "In the above resolution adopted by the board of revenue James A. Dupuy and Jerome A. Tucker were designated as two members of the planning board, and in the resolution adopted by the city commission, J. Frank Rushton and Henry U. Sims were designated as two other members of the planning board, and on November 17, 1924, those four members met in conference and after de- termining under authority of the above resolution that the planning board should consist of five members, rather than seven, elected George Gordon Crawford as the fifth member of the planning board, and thereafter organ ized and proceeded to carry out the duties imposed upon them.
 Your committees have separately conferred with the park board, the li- brary board, the architect of the library board, and the architest of the board of revenue, and various interested citi- zens. We have examined the topography of the area around Woodrow Wilson park and the plans already prepared for the new courthouse building pro- posed to be erected on block 21, re- gently acquired by Jefferson county, md we have examined the plans of the new library building proposed to be erected in Woodrow Wilson park, if the city commission and the park commits sion will consent to that proposal. We have had a number of meetings among ourselves and have given careful con sideration 10 many doubtful points in each separate proposal affecting the civic center idea, and we have con sidered the availability of the various possible positions for the proposed new buildings.
 Location Opposed
 The park board by three to two vote gave it's consent to the location of the library in the park. provided the architects for the library board and Olmsted Brothers, architects for the park board, could work out plans which would not interfere with proposed developments of the park. Later, fol lowing the suggestion of the Ramsay plan, the park board endorsed the Ramsay plan.
 Members of the park board. reached by telephone early Monday afternoon, would not comment on the report of the planning board. It was stated that no meeting of the library board is set for several days and that members want to study the report before com mentinS.
 I've have concluded unanimously, and hereby respectfully report:
 q. That it is for the good of the city of Birmingham and the county of lief | 1erson for your respective boards to de- eide upon some definite plan for the establishment of civic center in Bir- mlngham, to be monument to the artistic appreciation of the community
 2. That the most practicable locality l for that civic center is Capitol or Wood | row Wilson park, and the immediately surrounding territory;
 ;. That as far as practicable, such | public buildings as are now in prospect should be erected in that locality, and | should be designed in conformity with | the general plan for the civic center.
 A. That in recognition of future de- | mands as we'll as present limitations it | would be mistake to select locations for public buildings with primary re gard to the cheapneSs of the site, or the | avoidance of all outlay. as would be the | case if the new public library were | placed actually in the park;
 D. That since the county has acquired | block No. 21, that is to say, the block bounded by Twenty-first and East Twentieth streets, and park and Eigth avenues, and the board of revenue ex-