Pleasant Hill Library supporters lose fight to keep facility open past June

Pleasant Hill’s existing library, the oldest and busiest in Contra Costa County, will close in June, the county Board of Supervisors has decided, two years before a new library is scheduled to open nearby.

Supervisors voted 5-0 on March 10 to stick with a longstanding plan to demolish the old library, on Oak Road west of Interstate 680, in part because it is part of a four-way plan to transfer county library land to the city of Pleasant Hill, and to build 34 two-story houses on the land where the old library now sits.