Daycare a step closer in Port Moody
The Tri-City News
By Sarah Payne
November 27, 2009

Heritage Mountain parents are likely to get a much-needed daycare when ParkLane develops the last remaining property in the Port Moody neighbourhood.

But not everybody on the city’s north shore is happy about it.

At Tuesday’s public hearing, a resident who lives across the street from the potential development …said it’s not the right location for a daycare, and the residential component, with its rooftop patios, will block his views….

ParkLane is seeking a zoning bylaw amendment to allow a daycare and live-work spaces on the property … in front of the Heritage Mountain community centre and next to Aspenwood elementary. ….

Several residents, many of them with children in the Kinder Kampus daycare operating in the community centre, spoke in favour of the zoning amendment.

“Everyone wants to be the last person to move onto this hillside... but there’s a greater good here and I’d like to see council support this,” said Bruce Campeau, noting that area residents would prefer to see a daycare in that location instead of a convenience store, which is currently permitted under the zoning bylaw.

Another woman emphasized the need for childcare in the area. “I moved here four years ago and I was on the waiting list for three years to get into Kinder Kampus,” she said. “I think it’s naive to think a building is not going to be put up there” and that views will change….