Historic Preservation Board approves temporary childcare at Flamingo Park with scheduled progress checks

Historic Preservation Board members voted 4-1 on June 13 to approve a Certificate of Appropriateness for a temporary modular child-care facility to be sited within Flamingo Park, subject to design modifications and a schedule for progress reports.

Board members approved the project after staff and the applicant revised the plans to break the building massing into three modules, extend an entry canopy and avoid a stair reorientation that could harm an existing ficus tree. The board added a reporting requirement: the applicant must provide a progress report at issuance of a certificate of occupancy and every 18 months thereafter.

The temporary facility is proposed north of the existing playground in the area designated for the park’s butterfly garden. Colette Satchel of the city’s Capital Improvement Projects (CIP) program said staff selected the site to minimize long-term impacts on park trees and to preserve flexibility to restore landscape after removal of the modular building. "The city has allocated, I think, $1,800,000 for the construction of this project," Satchel said during the…