Tenleytown community leaders are opposing a plan under consideration by Mayor Adrian Fenty’s administration to incorporate the new Tenley-Friendship Branch Library as part of a mixed-use development on what is now public land.

The Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development is pursuing a private-sector partner to lease or buy the 3.6-acre site of Janney Elementary School and the former Tenley-Friendship Library. According to the draft Request for Proposals, the developer would construct a new 20,000-square-foot library and a larger, modernized elementary school in return for the right to develop the site.