May 14 UPDATE: Move delayed until June 4
After 25 years, this coming Wednesday will be the last time the downtown Santa Cruz Farmers Market sets up in the Cedar Street parking lots between Walnut and Lincoln, seen at right (Photo: Dan Coyro, Santa Cruz Sentinel). 
Meanwhile, planning proceeds on a reuse plan for the current library location. At a March 25 presentation, the city asked for community input on 3 options. The motion described below was passed:
The City is ready to move forward with preparing the site for the long-planned library/garage/housing project (first described here in 2023: Changes 58) that will cover those lots, so the Farmers Market moves to a temporary location next to and around the current library, as shown below.
"Motion To:
1) Adopt a resolution appropriating $250,000 from the Economic Development Trust Fund to fund site furnishings to activate Lot 16 for the Farmers’ Market and $150,000 from the Infill and Infrastructure Grant approved budget to fund needed site infrastructure; and
2) Select Option 2 for re-use of the existing library site with a preference for affordable housing for city employee, seniors, and/or other sub populations identified in need of housing, to the extent legally feasible; and
3) Direct staff to seek developers that will contribute to the development of the public market space."
No timeline has been established for these actions, so the Farmers Market may remain in its "temporary" location for quite some time. Eventually, the results of Option 2, as described in the presentation, will aspire to look something like the image below (City Hall is at far left).
