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for naps throughout the day, and the chldren at the daycare would
be in the backyard, right next to their rooms. It could be no
big deal, but it could be a very big deal. We know when children
get really loud and excited, it's hard to calm them down,
especailly if there are going to be only 2 women to possibly 16
children (and they did state in the meeting that they might only
hire one other helper so that one of them could have a day off
here and there, so that would still only leave 2 workers). Even
if they could calm them down, once our children have woken, it's
unlikely they'll get the sleep they need (not to mention Nikki's
much needed nap).
We know that the neighbors on the other side of the site and
three to the left of us are very concerned and have seemed to be
opposed for these and other reasons as well. We believe it can
be understood that one would not likely choose to move in next to
a daycare versus a peaceful culdesac.
We wish we could support what they are doing, as they have a
business dream in mind, and they seem excited about it, but we
don't want the daycare to be next door to us.
Thank you very much for your time, and we'll look forward to
hearing about the next meeting.
Sincerely,
John and Nikki Hammel
2031 Sonora Street
Fort Collins, Colorado 80525
282-3869
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From: John Hammel <Jhammel@hach.com>
To: "'solt@ci.fort-collins.co.us"' <solt@ci.fort-colli...
Date: Tue, Oct 17, 2000 2:57 PM
Dear Mr. Olt,
Thank you for facilitiating the informal meeting in August
concerning the development proposal on 2037 Sonora Street in Fort
Collins, which is underway, we assume, since there's a sign in
the yard. We just want to take a brief moment or two to express
our thoughts and opposition on this site becoming a full-time day
care of up to 16 children.
We feel the two women who want to run this business seem to be
very nice and trustworthy women, as much as we can know them.
They have done a nice job of communicating with us, the little
bit they have needed to do such. For example, when we had the
big snow in September, they knocked on our door to let us know
there was a large branch in the back yard that they were hoping
to get to that was hanging into our yard. They did mow the yard
weekly for a while, and now they have allowed a very kind woman
to live there while they are waiting on the process. She has
taken good care of the home from what we can tell and seems very
likeable.
However, we have some concerns. Our number one concern is
traffic. Though the women have high hopes and seemingly genuine
desires to control this and keep the parents from parking all
over our nice, safe culdesac, we don't believe they will
practically be able to do so. If they are going to try to run a
full-time daycare with up to 8 children to each woman (which we
believe will indirectly effect us in ways we may not be able to
think of -we can't see how that isn't too much no matter how
experienced one is), they are going to be tired and have that
yard to keep up with ( we're not sure they are going to have the
energy, since they won't be living at the home, to keep up with
this home as well as their own), and they will have parents to
communicate with (as parents of a 2 year old and an 8 month old
and Nikki a former second grade teacher, we know what that can be
like), plus many other tasks to keep up with, and we don't see
how they can control the traffic that may or may not be
intermittent within an hour to an hour and a half or so twice a
day, for possibly sixteen childrens' parents. They said they'd
encourage the parents to double park in the driveway, but we
wouldn't want to park behind someone to go into a daycare and
drop our child off, possibly hoping to chat with the caregivers
on some issue or just the day's events, only for another parent
to be leaving and say, "Would you please let me out? I'm late
for work." As stated before, the women have high hopes of
keeping this from being a problem, but we believe it's nearly
impossible. Part of the reason we liked this culdesac, since we
have children, is that we felt safe from too much traffic, and
our neighbors on the other side have stated the same idea.
Since we do live right next door to the site, we have a bit of a
concern about noise level, as well. Both of our children sleep