North Philly residents reject proposal to build new Cecil B. Moore Library that includes housing: ‘We resoundingly do not want that’

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Residents and community groups rejected an idea to replace North Philadelphia’s Cecil B. Moore Library with a new library building that would include housing.

City Councilmember Jeffery Young Jr., proposed the idea as an alternative to renovations promised at the library through the city’s soda tax–funded Rebuild program at a packed town hall meeting Tuesday evening at a nearby church…

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