An application to build out a national daycare franchise on Apple Valley Road was withdrawn at the Brookhaven City Council meeting on Tuesday, Aug. 26 after neighbors spoke out about variances they said would remove trees, increase noise, and invite traffic to the dead end street.

A total of eight variances were requested by Harsh Goyal, the owner of Kiddie Academy in Midtown, to allow exceptions for land development in the overlay district. City staff recommended approval of seven of the eight variances.

Mark Robinson of All Day Retail said he’d been working with Launch Properties to develop the property at 2614 Apple Valley Rd. for a year.

“[I] feel like we’ve worked cohesively with everyone in the comments, [and we] are kind of feeling like we’ve met everything we need to meet,” Robi

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