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CB 5 fears parking woes at Glendale daycare
BY MARK HALLUM
MHALLUM@SCHNEPSMEDIA.COM
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Members of Community Board
5 want the developers behind
a proposed Glendale daycare
facility to reconsider pickup and dropoff
arrangements for the 167 children
expected to attend the site on a
regular basis.
The advisory body made this
request on Feb. 13 after its Land
Use Committee reviewed plans for
a daycare facility at 79-40 Cooper
Ave., and heard from an attorney
representing the owners.
Land use attorney Frank St. Jacques
presented the same plans floated
by the committee at Wednesday’s
meeting at Christ the King High
School in Middle Village, but Board 5
Chairperson Vincent Arcuri was leery
of of parents who may double park on
Cooper Avenue and exacerbate the
same problem perceives happening
across the street where there
is a gymnasium.
“One of the complaints that I’ve
had is the dance studio across the
street and the gymnasium, parents
all double parked when dropping
them off. They create a problem,”
Arcuri said. “That’s why I think the
Frank St. Jacques, a land use attorney representing developers attempting to install a day care on an empty
Glendale lot, heard concerns from Community Board 5. Photo: Mark Hallum/RIDGEWOOD TIMES
Transportation Committee better look
at this closely and make some more
recommendations moving ahead.”
The Land Use Committee had
similar concerns regarding drop-off s
and pick-ups, and recommended the
developers look to getting a variance
as opposed to special permit to build a
daycare in an M1 industrial zone.
A daycare center is proposed
for the front part of this lot, which
also has a fi ve-story storage facility
under construction.
The 83,000-square-foot lot, which
also encompasses the storage facility,
currently under construction, is
expected to be operated by Children of
America which has several locations
and proposed locations in Queens.
Fift een classrooms of the proposed
facility will add up to a total of 15,212
square feet and will have a fenced
rooftop 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.
The daycare will be fenced off from
the storage facility and attorneys
from Akerman said Children
of America will keep kids under
close supervision.
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