Lighthouse Entertainment’s new complex for children was just one of four businesses to win special-use permits from the Henderson Zoning Board of Adjustment on Tuesday afternoon.
The board also approved a day care center in the Extra-Territorial Jurisdiction and a carwash and a tattoo parlor in the city. Like the Lighthouse plan, all received unanimous board support after facing no opposition in public hearings.
Bob Stanley, owner-operator of West End Washer on Parham Street at Arrow Street, is adding three self-serve carwash bays to his coin-operated laundry.
“I’ve got a bunch of extra land there, and I’d like to add something for my customers to do while they do their laundry and produce a little more income,” Stanley said. The project will include a one-way drive around the back of his building to use the wash bays.
Stanley said he’s aware of the competition for the same service in the immediate area, but he said those facilities haven’t been updated in at least 20 years. West End Washer, he said, will be a demonstration site for new equipment in an area covering the Carolinas and Virginia.
Tattoo artist Michael Boggs was back before the board less than five months after receiving a special-use permit to operate a tattoo studio on Corbitt Road. Boggs said he has been successful enough that he has expanded into the much larger office next to his, requiring a new special-use permit.
Boggs owns four tattoo parlors in New York and Connecticut as well as his growing Henderson business, which he said will be featured on MTV next month.
The day’s final special-use permit went to Annie Terry to open a 25-child day care center in an 825-square-foot building on Old Epsom Road.
Terry has run a home day care operation and now is expanding into a separate facility that will be open from 5:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Asked how the neighbors feel about the day care center opening, Terry said: “They’re all for it.”
Aside from having to move a fence that crosses the property line, Terry’s application had no problems, and she became the fourth unanimous approval of the day.