Tanya Kaur Guleria has a 1-year-old son. In a few years, he’ll enter Long Lots Elementary School.
The new Long Lots.
Tanya — a strategic and operations professional who moved here in 2023, and has already gotten involved in town activities as a Westport Library trustee and member of the Fair Rent Commission — wanted to learn more about the project.
What are the plans? What will it look like? What’s the timeline?
She reached out to the Long Lots School Building Committee, and offered to help.
They quickly accepted her offer.
This week, her contribution — a new, clear, informative and very user-friendly website — launched.
Handsome typeface and easy navigation are 2 key features.
Though not part of the official westportct.gov website — its URL is https://llsbc.org/ — it may be the best “town site” of all.
If you’re looking for any information, of any kind, on the Long Lots (and Stepping Stones Pre-School) project, it’s here.
- Animated and 3D views of plans
- Timeline: recently completed work (site preparation and grading); in progress (footings and foundation); what’s next (structural framing) — plus many more “dig deep” details
- News (for example, $1 million in energy incentives from Eversource)
- Background information (project history; why it’s needed; construction manager, architect, engineers and more)
- Photos of current construction
- Frequently asked questions
- Link to official documents, organized by topic.
- “Ask a question” button.
Timelapse videos will allow users to see the actual progress being made.
Photos, and clear captions, show progress as it’s made.
Tanya worked closely with the Long Lots School Building Committee on the site’s design. She approached it as a parent interested in learning more about the project.
“It’s a good way to orient yourself to the job site. It’s not too technical,” she explains.
But users with a technical bent find plenty of links to satisfy their inner engineer, too.
Tanya will continue to update the LLSBC website over the next couple of years. (Move-in date for students, it notes, is expected to be January of 2028.)
Meanwhile, let’s hope she has time for a new project.
Starting, perhaps, with the serviceable — but clunky, inconsistent, and very-much-in-need-of-an-upgrade — town website itself.
This video is part of the LLSBC website.
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