KinderCare Files Application for Parrot Mill Inn

Chatham Borough Planning Board President Richard Crater announced Wednesday that KinderCare Learning Centers filed an application to open a new center in the .

The application comes nearly two years after the Planning Board unanimously from Michael Osborne, owner of Tricare Treatment Services, to turn the historic building into a gambling addiction treatment facility.

The board then after the Zoning Board of Adjustment that a gambling addiction treatment facility would not be allowed to be placed in the inn, since it did not represent a continued use of the property.

It made that determination after made by Zoning Officer Vince DeNave that would have permitted the center to exist inside the inn.

KinderCare is a nationwide network of preschool and child care centers with approximately 1,800 locations throughout the country. The facility, if approved, will have to meet that specifically affect child care centers.

The ordinance requires a minimum of one parking space for every employee and one parking space for every 10 registered children.

According to Council Member Bruce Harris, the application calls for the original 1780 mill house to remain on the lot, but the addition to the east of the original house will be demolished, if the application is approved. A new edifice will also be constructed on the southern end of the lot, if KinderCare's application is approved.

The applicant will be heard at the Nov. 2 meeting of the Planning Board. The Planning Board meets at 7:30 p.m. every first and third Wednesday at the .