Should Costa Mesa build a new central library? City Council discussion Tuesday

Ongoing discussions about Costa Mesa’s proposal to build a new central library will continue Tuesday with a special City Council study session.

Residents and council members will have the chance to sound off on the plans, which include demolishing the Neighborhood Community Center at Lions Park and replacing it with a two-story, roughly 20,000-square-foot library.

The Donald Dungan library branch next to the community center would remain, according to the proposals, though be repurposed as a meeting spot to make up for the loss of the community center.

Culver City-based Johnson Favaro, a consultant on the project, has noted that the community center, first built in the early 1980s, would require costly renovation work, which may preclude the other option of it being saved and turned into a library.

Tuesday’s meeting begins at 5 p.m. at City Hall, 77 Fair Drive.

—Bradley Zint