FORT PIERCE \u2013 An 11,346-square-foot building at 2817 Peters Road took another step toward becoming a new preschool for youngsters from 18 months to 5 years of age.<\/p>\n
Indira Ceville appeared before the Fort Pierce City Commission Monday night to explain what Agape Preschool Academy will offer if the city approved a minor site plan use for the location with no new construction expected.<\/p>\n
The school will include 13 classrooms, indoor and outdoor play areas, a therapy room, administrative area and a staff lounge.<\/p>\n
Ceville said entering and exiting traffic will be routed to avoid a lineup of vehicles on public streets.<\/p>\n
Officials said the building, with a market value of about $9.3 million, will be open to students from 6:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. and parents will be responsible for transporting children to and from the school.<\/p>\n
Ceville said during its first year, Agape will not serve breakfast or lunch, requiring students to bring provisions from home. After that, the school may begin offering onsite meals.<\/p>\n
The property is now zoned general commercial and commissioners agreed to issue a conditional use for the preschool if the operator applies for sign permits and submits a change of use application before the building is occupied.<\/p>\n
In other business Monday, commissioners approved allocating $300,000 of federal Community Development Block Grant funds for a joint project with St. Lucie County to improve the Arthur Lee Boatwright Pool.<\/p>\n
Officials said the Lincoln Park neighborhood recreation site needs \u201csubstantial rehabilitation to ensure its continued safe and reliable operation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT PIERCE \u2013 An 11,346-square-foot building at 2817 Peters Road took another step toward becoming a new preschool…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172,563],"class_list":["post-421407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-st_lucie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}