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New daycare center planned for Glendale site
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BY MARK HALLUM
MHALLUM@SCHNEPSMEDIA.COM
2@QNS
Community Board 5’s Land Use
Committee heard arguments
on Tuesday night for a special
permit application with the Board
of Standards and Appeals for the
construction of a daycare center in
Glendale.
An attorney representing the developer
appeared before the committee
on Feb. 5 at the board’s Glendale offi ce
to answer questions regarding the
safety of the children who will be taken
care of at the location.
Nora Martins, the attorney representing
CS Cooper Avenue LLC, assured
the advisory body that the operators of
the proposed facility at 79-40 Cooper
Ave. would protect children from not
only the industrial activity surrounding
the lot they hope to build on, but
will take responsibility for keeping
them safe in the event that the city Department
of Homeless Services (DHS)
places a shelter nearby.
The surrounding area is no stranger
to construction as of late. The adjacent
lot is undergoing a transformation
into a self-storage building and, down
the road, 78-16 Cooper Ave. has been
in a tug-of-war between the city and
Councilman Robert Holden over a
proposed homeless shelter or a public
school.
“Cooper Avenue is very commercial,
there’s actually a lot of children oriented
businesses,” Martins said. “So the
daycare facility which is proposed to
be operated by Children of America
seems the natural fi t in this area, they
had identifi ed a need for daycare in
this area that is not being served …
Obviously this will be a highly supervised
facility and it’s not like an open
playground where children will be
potentially impacted by a potential
nearby homeless shelter.”
A new zoning text amendment to
allow special permits for hotels in M1
districts could make it easier for the
DHS, according to one source, to house
homeless at 78-16 Cooper Ave. site which
has a pending application with the city
Department of Buildings to include a
“transient lodging house” in a permit
fi led in August.
DHS stated in a Jan. 15 email to QNS
that although up 9,900 of the homeless
population being sheltered in Queens,
it is currently phasing out the practice
of lodging the 46 percent of them in
commercial hotels.
The 83,000-square-foot lot, which
also encompasses the storage facility,
needs a special permit to operate a
mixed community facility and commercial
retail space under the current
M1-1 zoning, but Martins wants to use
a special permit mechanism from the
BSA which allows daycares in these
zones under some circumstances.
Just across the street from the
proposed daycare is R4 zoning and
although the daycare is private, they
will off er Universal Pre-K, Martins said.
Children of America will oversee
about 167 children in 15 classrooms of the
proposed facility which be a total of 15,212
square feet and will have a fenced rooft op
playground. About 3,986 square feet of
the building will be used as commercial
fl oor space that can be subdivided into
smaller tenant spaces which the developers
hope will attract a medical facility.
Martins, a land-use attorney who last
year represented the Sun Equity in its
controversial eff ort to built retail space
for Target with housing in Elmhurst,
said they will provide more than the
required parking with 32 spaces and
a special driveway off Cooper Avenue
for drop off and pick up areas. They do
not anticipate any major traffi c impacts.
The fi ve-story storage facility and
daycare will not share the same vehicle
entrance.
Children of America currently has
daycare facility in Jackson Heights and
Queens Village, and hope to not only expand
into Glendale but Bellerose as well.
Board 5 will examine the matter
further during a presentation at the
board’s next public meeting, on Feb. 13
at Christ the King High School in Middle
Village. The session begins at 7:30 p.m.
Photo: Mark Hallum/RIDGEWOOD TIMES
Scouts served big donation
from restaurant in Glendale
Photo courtesy of Kerrie Hansen
Members of several local Boys and Girl Scouts programs received
a big donation last week from The Avenue Restaurant Bar & Grill
in Glendale. The funds were raised by restaurant owners Robert
Schoemig and Vytas Kezys, who hosted a Nov. 2, 2018 golf outing in memory
of Markus Kotnik, a Glendale resident who died in May 2017. Schoemig and
Kezys participated in the check presentation along with Kerrie Hansen, past
president of the Kiwanis Club of Glendale, and Frank Kotnik, Markus’ father.
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