A proposed daycare center for the old Easter Seals building in Green Hills brought out a sizable crowd at last night’s Metro Council meeting.
The Gardner School, a daycare chain, wants to use the building to care for up to 175 children. The site was previously used as daycare for 75. Opponents are upset with the increase and the possibility of more traffic.
But supporters like Martha Boyd, who lives near the proposed site and has a nine-month old, says she needs it.
“If you’ve looked for daycare recently, you’ll…people laugh at you even when you’re trying to get on their waiting list. You know, they say you might get in when you’re child is going to college and that’s not really helpful.”
Easter Seals is having financial troubles and wants to sell the property. The district’s Council member moved the bill back to the Planning and Zoning Committee for the two sides to work out their issues.
In other Council business, members approved an historical overlay for the Hermitage, former President Andrew Jackson’s family home, on the second of three readings. The property has changed hands many times since Jackson purchased it in 1804. It also been used for a variety of things, from a plantation, to housing the Confederate Soldier’s Home in the 1890s and finally to a museum. This is the first time the city has taken up an overlay for the property.
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