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Neighbors split on Children's Paradise school expansion after traffic study; council approves conditional use with traffic controls

Hialeah City Council · September 24, 2025
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After a detailed traffic study and hours of public comment, council approved the school's special use with conditions including staggered arrival shifts, three on‑site drop‑off stations, trained traffic personnel or off‑duty officers, signage, and limits on nighttime events; neighbors had urged tabling and stronger written guarantees.

The council held a lengthy public hearing on a proposed expansion and campus redevelopment for a locally operating school (referred to in the record as Children’s Paradise / Children’s Learning Paradise). The applicant presented a traffic impact study prepared by Choice Engineering that modeled a conservative enrollment scenario (the study used a 270‑student projection for analysis) and estimated roughly 227 additional AM trips in the most conservative projection; the consultants proposed operational mitigations…

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