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Genuinely curious: why?
I agreed with their complaint that this sets a precedent that would allow people to start all kinds of businesses from their homes that would disrupt the entire neighborhood. I don’t know why the people got so angry about it though.
Also, 16 kids getting dropped off/picked up by their parents at the same time of day crowding the road, 16 kids playing outside and screaming two hours a day, I wouldn’t want to live next to that. I can choose not to live next to a park or a playground, I can’t control if my neighbor decides to turn their home into a playground.
I think getting upset about noise from children playing in the middle of the day is absurd. But, I think the concern about precedent setting is valid. If this is a genuine concern of the residents that claim this is why they don’t want the daycare, I’d propose a change in local rules that specifically carve out an exception for daycares so that it is explicitly not precedent setting. If it’s just NIMBYs gonna NIMBY, I expect even a carve out wouldn’t be good enough.
I'd say the problem here is this isn't precedent-setting. It's not a rule change, it's an arbitrary process making an arbitrary decision based on the arbitrary opinion of the city's chief planner. Daycares should be by right but because of this insane ad hoc process we have no clear guidance on what's allowed where. Just because one guy opens a day care in point grey doesn't mean the next guy can open a nuclear plant.