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Dan Fumano: How a Vancouver neighbourhood fought, and defeated, a daycare
(vancouversun.com)
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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.
But when you live in a city you have to accept some level of "disturbance" (remember this is children playing, not a rock concert) from others. Following your logic, we wouldn't be allowed to permit anything in the entire city ever again. Vancouver desperately needs new things like daycares and housing and we can't let the loudest (and richest) residents veto their inclusion.
Zooming out, this is 10 minutes from the downtown core of Vancouver, the region of 3 million people. You can't expect it to be preserved in amber forever. Ultimately this will mean fewer families are allowed to live in Vancouver because childcare is so important, and that hurts the entire city.
Which often sounds like murder due to the blood-curdling screaming kids do these days, for fun. It's not the happy giggling like on TV.
I work in a childcare centre which has a capacity of about 70 children on the busiest days. It's not that loud. And children don't often just scream for no reason. It happens of course, but they don't just stand around screaming at the top of their lungs. And when they do decide on screaming or there's a dispute generally there's an educator to sort it out. You sound really out of touch.