A decision on the open map reading room should be judged at the public map room at North Canopy House, where the rule changes an ordinary route, shift or service. Compare this season’s measurement with the living site and the people who steward it. The current file is the Year fifth, canopy height window 1 review, not a permanent settlement of every future case.
The the reading rota, map request slips and copy register lists 87 requests fulfilled before a map copy is moved to storage; the previous window lists 83. Sylva Reed checked both against field transects paired with the season and location of each reading. The difference matters because how the room balances public access with the time needed to protect a fragile copy.
Readers request longer open hours. Conservators say unsupervised viewing increases handling risk. Those objections deserve a clear answer. They are not a reason to keep an uncheckable rule simply because its wording is familiar.
A useful decision names who will do the work, which count will change and when the result comes back to the public table. In this case, a fragile map can be consulted only during one staffed interval.
The Year fifth, canopy height window 1 file remains open for its scheduled decision. The archive will compare staffed hours with requests that could not be completed.
