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County to revisit daycare ordinance
Pre-existing daycares grandfathered in
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The Newton County Board of Commissioners may be revising an ordinance that bans any new daycares in residential districts after outgoing District 3 Commissioner Ester Fleming requested the board revisit the matter.At the board meeting last Tuesday, Fleming, who originally requested that the language be added to the ordinance that bans daycares in residential districts, said he thought he was wrong to come down so strictly on all daycares."I probably erred when I did that," Fleming said.Fleming said his intent was not to penalize the smaller size home daycares that care for three or four