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Evanston committee forwards Kensington daycare proposal to council after split public comment on traffic and scale
Summary
After more than an hour of public comment both for and against a proposed Kensington daycare at 3434 Central Street, the Evanston Planning and Development Committee voted to send ordinance 13026 to full City Council with a neutral recommendation. Opponents cited traffic, safety and scale; supporters stressed the congregation’s need to sell and Kensington’s outreach.
The Evanston Planning and Development Committee on March 23 voted to forward ordinance 13026 — a special-use and planned-development application to allow a 20,000-square-foot Kensington child daycare at 3434 Central Street — to the full City Council with a neutral recommendation after sustained public comment.
Opponents focused on traffic and scale. “Many parents, as they were picking up, parked on Kensington Avenue. They didn’t pull into the lot. They parked on Kensington on both sides, ran in, picked up their child, and left,” said Craig Mccclure, a nearby resident, describing what he said he observed at a comparable Kensington site. Several speakers, including Larry Raffle and George Stevenson, said the Gross Point Road/Central Street intersection already functions as a confusing, merged cluster of approaches…
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