RAC Should Reconsider Proposed Upgrades

While I am fine with the Rye Art Center expanding, and while I understand the property next door into which it plans to expand was donated to the Center to use as it chose, I think the proposed expansion, as we’ve seen in the architectural rendering, will be completely out of place in the surrounding neighborhood. As I think I understand it, the Center already does not conform to the zoning requirements of that area, but more or less grew into its present location without a zoning change really being addressed. But the current Arts Center is in a house, looking very much like the neighborhood that surrounds it. The proposed new building will be so completely out of character with the neighborhood that it’s not hard to imagine that it will completely and permanently destroy the character of that neighborhood. And all this is said without mentioning the traffic nightmare the Center’s new plans could imaginably cause. The renovations should address these two issues first and foremost.