Glenwood Village Board Denies Special Use Permit for Day Care Center
Posted on 09. Dec, 2009 by admin in Community Focus
by Lesley R. Chinn
An ordinance to grant a special use permit to operate a child day care center located in a strip mall on the 18400 block of S. Halsted in Glenwood repealed.
The Village of Glenwood unanimously approved an ordinance to repeal the measure during a meeting held this past Tuesday to deny a special use permit to allow the Alphabet Campus II to operate.
Village administrator Eric Wiederhold explained that the Alphabet Campus II Day Care Center located at 18425 S. Halsted had previously been abandoned and the Village has an ordinance that does not allow day care centers to operate in strip malls.
The Citizen later called officials from the Alphabet Campus II for their reactions to the Village’s decision. Melodie Peters, the Alphabet Campus’s owner, said the property is currently sitting abandoned because her lease expired in July.
However, Peters sold the business earlier this year for $50,000 to her business partner, who applied for the special use permit. Peters said her business partner had $35,000 up front and was hoping to collect the rest of her money once the day care center opened.
Peters said the Village denied the permit application because of a village ordinance does not allow day care centers to operate in strip malls. Right now, Peters said that she can’t collect the rest of her money as a result of the Village denying her business partner a permit. So right now, Peters said she is short $15,000.
However, Peters said she is currently operating a day care center in Homewood, where she’s been since 2000. Meanwhile, Wiederhold said interested individuals have inquired about the former day care center property in Glenwood.
