The City of St. John’s is doing its part to ease the run on child care spaces.
Council is in the process of entertaining several applications for new daycare facilities.
The most recent was given approval in principle at yesterday’s public meeting.
It calls for a child care centre in the former Holy Cross junior high school on Rickett’s Road, with spaces for 80 children and close to 20 staff.
The proponent must still satisfy all zone standards, including parking requirements.
The building was most recently a temporary home for the French school École Rocher-Du-Nord, but they have since moved to the former school for the deaf on Topsail Road.
Another child care centre was recently given approval in principle for Edmonds Place, which backs onto Walmart along Kelsey Drive.
That one is expected to be twice the size of the Rickett’s Road facility, with room for 156 children and almost 40 staff — although some councillors have expressed concern with traffic turning in and out of the site along the already busy, four-lane thoroughfare.