Recently Lakeland Photographer David Dickey Jr. got a chance this week to take some shots of the inside of Deen House, this 107-year-old landmark on Frank Lloyd Wright Way.
The Lakeland Planning & Zoning Board has scheduled a meeting on Tuesday on a conditional use permit allowing the building to be used as a preschool.
Currently. the neighbors do not want this change on use and zoning and have started a quiet protest with 100 signs in the neighborhood.
Townsend said the neighborhood association has not attempted to sit down and talk with the Brawners who own the Deen House about the residents’ concerns.
“Whether or not Lakeland needs another preschool is irrelevant, this is the wrong location for this type of use,” she said. “There is no common ground for us to discuss.”