Dolno Lisiche is finally getting something it has long asked for - its first kindergarten. The Aerodrom municipality has launched the construction process after the Council approved, by a majority, the preparation of the necessary urban-planning and design documentation. For a neighborhood that has grown faster than its infrastructure for years, this is the step that was missing.

Dolno Lisiche's problem is well known - houses and buildings spring up, families with small children move in, and public facilities lag by several years. Parents have for years driven their children to kindergartens in other parts of the city, because their own neighborhood has nothing. The adopted detailed urban plan now opens the legal possibility not only for a kindergarten but also for a sports hall - infrastructure that should have existed before people moved in, not after.

According to the municipality's 2026 budget, a new kindergarten, "Pchelka 1," is planned for the neighborhood. The promises sound nice - but Dolno Lisiche isn't a neighborhood that easily believes promises about facilities. A process started is not a kindergarten built. Between the two stand a tender, a contractor, a deadline, and a history of projects that "started the process" and then stalled.

If the kindergarten really gets built, it will be news worth celebrating - finally a place where parents from the neighborhood can drop off a child without crossing half the city. But the joy comes when the ribbon is cut, not when the documentation is approved. Until then, Dolno Lisiche will rightly watch with reservation - because the promised kindergarten has fed many mayoral terms, but fed few children.