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Apopka planner advances special-exception request for daycare at Chandler Road parcels
Summary
City staff presented a request to allow a daycare on 5.12 acres at 4410 and 4420 Chandler Road; applicant said the use would be strictly a daycare for infants through 5 with before-and-after care for older children. Committee members raised parking and traffic concerns; staff said a public hearing will be scheduled.
City staff presented a special-exception application April 9 requesting permission to operate a childcare facility on two parcels at 4410 and 4420 Chandler Road in Apopka.
June Song, project manager in community development, told the Development Review Committee the combined property is 5.12 acres, currently residential or vacant, with a future land-use designation of Residential Very Low Suburban and an RSF-1A zoning district. She said a childcare facility is allowed in that zoning only with a special exception and that surrounding parcels are single-family homes and a public school, Kelly Park School, is about 1.1 miles away.
The applicant, who identified herself as Camilla of Apopka Child Academy, said the proposed operation would be a daycare, not a school. "Hi. My name is Camilla. We will be opening a day care. It'll be from infant to 12 year old. We will only give from, infant to 5 year old, care, and then before and after for 5 year olds to 13 years old," she said. She added, "And so there's no intent for it ever to become a school." Camilla told the committee Apopka Child Academy has been in business in the city for more than 16 years and this site would be its second location.
A committee member raised parking and traffic concerns, noting existing complaints tied to the nearby K–8 school and warning that insufficient on-site parking could cause vehicles to back up onto the adjacent roadway: "My concern is is parking, because we already get complaints about the traffic because of the k through 8 down the street. And if you don't have the property or the parking means to ensure that people aren't going to be backed up onto, Jason Dwelle, then that's gonna create an issue." Song confirmed staff will schedule a public hearing and follow up with the applicant on dates.
Representatives from police, fire and the building department told the committee they had no additional comments at the Development Review Committee meeting.
The item was carried forward for public hearing scheduling and further review; no final decision or vote was taken by the committee at this meeting.
The committee will consider the special-exception application at a future public hearing after community development schedules that hearing and circulates any outstanding review comments.
