WATERLOO: Planners table pottery shop at childcare facility
The point may be moot, as the owner of Sassafras-Robin Siedle of Waterloo-said the day after the Commission's Monday meeting it is no longer planning to move the pottery shop to an unused portion of Kid's Academy on Lakeview Drive.
Siedle owns both Kid's Academy Childcare and Sassafras, a pottery shop on W. Mill Street.Siedle had petitioned the city to rezone a portion of its 409 Lakeview Drive property to B-3 (central business) from R-5 (multi-family residential) to allow the pottery shop to be moved to the childcare facility.
"Rezoning an area that small just wasn't going to work," commission member and former chairman Robert Buettner said.
"They were talking about downsizing the number of kids and the area where they would be taking care of them to make the one end room into a pottery shop. (A pottery shop) would not have created any great traffic problem, they would mainly have just been giving pottery lessons. Our code just wouldn't have allowed it," Buettner said.
City Zoning Administrator Lonny Ludwig said he met with Siedle to look at possibly approaching the issue as a special-use request after the commission tabled it.
Siedle said she is now considering a different location, if she chooses to move Sassafras.
