University and City Council to Meet, Discuss Sites for Kennedy Library

The City Council Monday asked representatives form the University and the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library to meet with Cambridge officials to discuss locating the Library on the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority's Bennett St. subway yards.

Although the Kennedys have not announced their choice of a site for the Library, the yards are generally considered to be their first choice. Councillor Daniel J. Hayes Jr., chairman of a special committee on the use of the yards, said he knew "on very good authority" that the 12-acre area would be selected.

The location of the Library on the yards would create severe traffic and parking problems, Hayes said, and the meeting would help minimize these difficulties by insuring coordination between the University, the Library, and the City.

Hayes is also interested in having as much of the yards developed into tax- producing revenue as possible. "The size of the Bennett St. Yards is of such proportion...that it might very well accommodate not only the Memorial (but also) a suitable business development," he reported to the Council. The Library would be tax exempt.