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| Written by PI Staff | |
| Wednesday, 05 December 2007 | |
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Patterson Planning Commission will decide Thursday whether a 14-child day care center should open near American Eagle and Sperry avenues. This is the second time Laura Cardenas, owner of Mi Casa Day Care, has asked the commission for the necessary permits to operate there. Cardenas also requested a permit for 40 children in May. That drew complaints from people who live close to the proposed site. They said the business would create too much noise and traffic and did not conform to the city’s general plan. Though the general plan typically limits day care centers in that area to 14 children, the commission granted Cardenas the variance she sought because of some of the property’s unique characteristics. The home where the day care would be run was built in 1955, and unlike the other homes in the area, it has an 8-foot high masonry wall separating it from its neighbors. Also, the 1.76-acre site is much larger than the surrounding lots. The commission limited the number of children the site could host to 25 with the possibility of expansion, but after an appeal to Patterson City Council on July 17, the number was raised to Cardenas’ original request of 40 children. According to a report from the city’s Community Development Department to the commission, Cardenas has decided to start with a 14-child facility because of the costs associated with a 40-child day care. The report does not say whether she eventually plans to expand. The variance the council granted Cardenas for 40 children will expire in July 2009. In other matters… City staff has suggested that the commission abandon a seldom-used section of E Street and give the strip of land to the property owners next to it. The commission will consider abandoning the westernmost stretch of E Street that connects Ninth Street to Sperry Avenue. That part of the road is littered with potholes, and the city has not spent any money on it since it annexed hundreds of acres of land — including that stretch of E Street — from the county in 1996. A report to the commission says none of the traffic studies the city has conducted took that section of road into account. In addition, plans for a retail center in that area would mean the elimination of the road.
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