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Council approves expanded Children’s Paradise campus after traffic study and neighbor debate
Summary
The council approved a special-use permit and related variances for Children’s Paradise to redevelop its East 50 Ninth Street campus, after a traffic study and a contentious public hearing that produced new conditions on traffic control, signage and nighttime events.
The City Council approved a special-use permit and supporting variances to allow the City of Hialeah Children’s Paradise operator to redevelop its campus at Palm Avenue and East 50 Ninth Street for an elementary school plus daycare, subject to conditions negotiated with staff and neighbors.
Attorney Cesar Mestre presented the application and said the applicant had addressed a lengthy list of comments from the city’s traffic consultant. The applicant’s traffic engineer, Andrew Terrace of Choice Engineering Consultants, summarized a traffic-impact study that used a conservative enrollment assumption and analyzed the arrival (AM) peak. Terrace said the study showed “minimal impacts” to nearby intersections after mitigation measures, such as a traffic routing plan, restricted left turns into the campus during arrival, three on‑site…
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