Child Care Planning and advisory council. I am here to speak in favor of the child care facilities because there is a huge requirement in the city. We have currently just on the citys low income list 3,000 children who we have no space for. We have no facilities for. It is one of the Biggest Challenges that the city is facing in terms of being able to provide adequate child care. One of the things that is especially desirable about this facility that it is on the ground floor. That means we would be our people would be able to serve infants and young toddlers who would be about three months probably to 18 months. Currently in two of our facilities and we are opening up another one in the fall, but we cannot serve infants and toddlers because they are not on the ground floor. There is a very big need just within our program. We have 110 children on the wait list for infants and young toddlers. You can see that there is a great need and kind of one of my mottos we can never do enough for
But its hard when you dont when its a very, very steep site. Drop off from the street is immense here. Its hard to figure out where its going to impact the light. I want to stress, its really the light. Its really the light. You have the pictures about how dark it is in this building already. And this building behind it is a complication. And this is from the second level, the ground level looks straight out on a wall. There are only two levees in this house. Ms. Hester. And it has a wall in front of it. Thank you. Commissioner fung. Im sorry, but since its the focus on light, then we need to define it. There is no direct light going into that window. Its south of this project. The permit. So there is no direct light. Is there ability to have some reflected light there perhaps . You know . Its going to be relatively dark on that window anyway. We cannot keep having comment from the crowd, please. Im prepared to make a motion. I accept staffs recommendation and will not take d. R. And a