Petition doesn’t stop Lavington park daycare

Construction on a daycare centre is proceeding in Lavington Centennial Park despite a 184-name petition presented to Coldstream council this week.

In fact, Mayor Jim Garlick is hoping the daycare will be open this autumn.

“We listened to their concerns,” said Garlick of the delegation that presented the petition opposing the daycare.

Garlick said there had been a lot of misinformation about the project that council and staff at Monday’s meeting were able to correct.

The mayor said a non-profit group, not a business, would be running the daycare in the building which will be owned by the district.

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He said a bylaw allows for park, recreation and community use in the ten-acre park.

“Childcare would be a community use,” he explained. “Those things were all good things to share (with the delegation).”

He said regulations connected to the trains running nearby are being followed so that the prefabricated building and the play area are outside of the boundary.

“It was an opportunity for council to actually get information to the public because it has been difficult over the last few months with people not being able to attend,” Garlick said of the meeting.

Right now in the park, workers are putting in a septic field, followed by the foundation before the prefab is erected.

“We’re hoping sometime this fall it will be ready which we wish could be done right for the opening of school but it is not possible at this time.”