Mayor Adrian Fenty is refusing to budge and says he will push forward a multimillion-dollar library and housing complex in Tenleytown.

Fenty wants to build a new library branch across from the Tenleytown Metro station and allow a developer to build a high-rise apartment building atop the new library. He has encountered fierce resistance from the D.C. Public Library board and D.C. Council members Mary Cheh, D-Ward 3, and Kwame Brown, D-at large, who say the project will line a private developer’s pocket at public expense and slash into needed “green space” at the adjacent Janney Elementary School.