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A new day care and preschool center is planned near the Lake Pleasant Parkway and the Avenida Del Sol alignment in north Peoria.
The Peoria Planning and Zoning Commission recently approved a rezoning case that will allow for Little Sunshine’s Playhouse & Preschool on about 2 acres in north Peoria.
Specifically, the land was rezoned from suburban ranch 43 to convenience commercial.
The land consists of two parcels and is currently undeveloped along Lake Pleasant Parkway.
The facility will include a 10,500-square-foot building and an adjacent 5,150-square-foot turf playground. The business will serve students between 6 weeks and 6 years of age, and business hours will be 6:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m., Monday-Friday.
The site is largely surrounded by single-family homes including the communites of Avenida Del Sol and Camino De Oro.
Development standards include, but are not limited to, 20-foot landscape buffers between the site and adjacent residential developments, and a maximum building height of 30 feet.
Access to the business will be limited to one driveway onto Lake Pleasant Parkway and no public access provided to Avenida del Sol.
Little Sunshine’s Playhouse & Preschool has locations in 11 states. This will be the fourth location in Arizona.
Philip Haldiman is a third generation Arizona native with brief residencies on the east and west coasts.
He has bachelor’s degrees in Theater and Journalism at Arizona State University, and is an award winning journalist with more than 15 years worth of experience in reporting and editing.
Most recently, he took first place for investigative reporting and third place for best sustained coverage or series at the 2023 Arizona Newspapers Association awards.
In his free time, he produces an autobiographical comic book about his time spent in Hollywood and his life as a cult film star.
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