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Planning panel refers 3599 Deerfield Drive daycare expansion to City Council after neighbors raise safety and traffic concerns

Hoover City Planning Commission · May 5, 2026
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Summary

The Hoover Planning Commission forwarded a request to expand a home-based daycare at 3599 Deerfield Drive to the City Council with no recommendation after extended public comment and commissioner questions about sprinklers, occupancy and traffic.

The Hoover Planning Commission on an undisclosed date voted to forward to the Hoover City Council — with no recommendation — a conditional-use request to reclassify the home at 3599 Deerfield Drive from a day care home to a group day care home.

Alicia Rausser, the owner and applicant, told the commission she operates a family childcare program at the address and seeks authorization to convert to a group day care that would allow up to 12 children "but currently based off of the square footage, I can have 8." Rausser described a staggered drop-off and pickup schedule and said Department of Human Resources screening is…

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