Beachwood residents love our library. We want a branch that serves our community for generations. But moving our library to Fairmount Blvd. would put that investment in the wrong place and harm the neighborhoods around it.

More than 160 residents have already signed our paper petition. We’re now bringing this effort online so every Beachwood resident can have a voice.

As currently planned, moving the library to Fairmount would mean:

• Quiet residential streets become cut-throughs for library traffic.
• A third traffic signal comes to Fairmount, adding congestion to a key corridor.
• No funding has been set aside to replace the ballfields residents use every day, and even if it’s found, families would lose them for multiple seasons.
• Middle schoolers lose a beloved after-school space. Today the library is steps from school, but the new site would be a 20-minute walk away, and in a Cleveland winter, many simply won’t make the trip.
• 100+ mature trees are cut down.
• The Fairmount median is torn apart.
• Backyards become targets for baseballs, and soccer balls end up on a main road, putting drivers and kids at risk.

These impacts are too significant to decide without facts.  We ask our city and school leaders to:

1. Make no preliminary or final decision on this site until independent professional studies are completed on the environmental, traffic, and economic impacts; and
2. Hold advertised public hearings once those studies are complete, so residents can review the findings and be heard before any decision is made.

This isn’t about stopping a library. It’s about getting it right. A project this important deserves careful study, a transparent process, and real community input

Beachwood deserves a great library in the right location. Please sign and share with your neighbors.