Nothing much got settled at last night’s Community Planning Board 8 Roosevelt Island Committee meeting on Southpoint Park and the proposed Louis Kahn/FDR memorial. It was an opportunity for the proponents and opponents of the project to express their positions to members of the Community Board which is a very good thing. For the most part, the Community Board members were not aware of the issues or history of the project but were very interested in learning which is also a good thing. None of the other item agendas such as the future of Coler- Goldwater hospital or Roosevelt Island transportation issues were discussed since the entire 2 plus hours were spent on the Kahn project.
What is clear from last night event is that this is about the Louis Kahn Memorial not a Franklin Delano Roosevelt memorial.
Advocates of the project made the following points:
In the words of one advocate for the design “Trust Kahn”. Opponents of the Kahn design: Roosevelt Island 360 has an excellent summary of the evening as well as some additional images of the Kahn design. 
There will be a Roosevelt Island Town Hall meeting on this sometime is February or March.Image of Louis Kahn from Design 20.