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Commission approves family childcare home at 1191 Stafford after applicants scale back request
Summary
After neighbors raised traffic and safety concerns, the Planning and Zoning Commission approved a conditional use to operate a family childcare home at 1191 Stafford with a reduced limit (family-childcare-home standard) and staff conditions; the vote was 1–nay, others–aye.
The City of Casper Planning and Zoning Commission approved a conditional use permit allowing a family childcare home at 1191 Stafford, after the applicants amended their request from a family childcare center for up to 15 children to a family childcare home with a proposed limit of about 10 children.
The change matters because the application shifted from a larger family childcare center (up to 15 children) to the smaller family childcare home category under municipal rules; commissioners said the amendment and the conditions in the staff report addressed many neighborhood concerns, although at least one commissioner voted against final approval.
Planning staff explained the property is in an R-1 residential estate district and that a family childcare center is a potential conditional use under section 17 28 0 3 0 (as cited in the staff report). Staff said the Department of Family Services (DFS)…
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