Last month Rebecca Anne Kelleher asked for a permit to operate a day-care center.
By Noreen Coolidge
Special to the Sun Journal

WILTON – Planners will consider one change to a permit they granted to operate a day-care center when they meet Thursday, March 18. The meeting begins at 7 p.m. at the town office.

Last month Rebecca Anne Kelleher asked for a permit to operate a day-care center from her home at 684A Main St. for eight to 12 children of various ages. The home sits next to Norm’s Redemption Center. Kelleher rents half the building.

Code Enforcement Officer Brenda Medcoff told the board she is concerned about parking at the facility and doesn’t want to see people backing out of the driveway onto Main Street. She recommended that planners require that access onto Curve Street be made available. In the summer and winter months access is possible, but is blocked by snow in the winter.

Kelleher said since the building is rented she would need to talk to the landlord about plowing the access route. She said the people who rent the other side of the building park there as well. Medcoff said the driveway is wide enough to allow a car to park along the side and still allow traffic to pass.

Medcoff also voiced concern about parking cars near the redemption center side in the winter because there is a danger of snow and ice falling from the roof of that business into the driveway.

Planners voted to approve the permit with the conditions that access to Curve Street be provided for public safety, all applicable state permits are obtained, and that a fire marshal’s inspection report be obtained. Now Kelleher wants to change the condition of access for parking to state that traffic will not back on the highway.

In other business, planners will continue to work on issues to be proposed at that town’s annual meeting in June.

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