The District 1 Project Review Committee met on March 4, 2026, to review a conditional use permit application for a parking lot expansion at the Shrine of St. Teresa Church, discuss administrative matters, and hear unscheduled communications on homelessness.
Welcome everyone. It appears we have a quorum, so we will start tonight with a call to order and roll call. Yeah. Committee member Barry? Present. Committee member confirmed? Present. Committee member Felix? Committee member Lots. We have a quorum. Okay. Next item is the agenda approval. Do I have a motion to approve the February 12th, 2026 meeting agenda? I have a motion. Meeting agenda. Second. Okay. So it passes. Next order of business is the consent calendar. Do I have a motion to adopt the draft minutes for January 8th, 2026? Present a motion to draft uh for consideration approval of draft minutes from the January 8th, 2026 meeting. Okay. So move. Uh next uh project review new matters uh before the committee today is the approval comments or recommendations for conditional use permit application number P two five-02902. The conditional use permit number P2502902 submitted by Ken Bang of Vice pertains to an approximate point five nine acres site located at 1363 North Morroa Avenue. The applicant proposes to expand an existing parking lot to provide 69 new parking spaces serving the shrine of St. Teresa Church located north of the subject property. The site currently contains 16 angled parking stalls from a partially completed parking lot originally approved under conditional use permit number C06340. As the original approval expired, the proposed parking lot expansion is now considered an expansion of a legal non-conforming use. I want to say uh I since it's a CO6, I want to say it's a it was in 06. Yeah, okay. And so I also noticed uh on the permit justification, it says that the proposed development is necessary to meet parking requirements imposed by the city of Fresno for the continued operation of the church. Uh do you happen to know anything about that? Is this uh some new requirement from the city, or the church would not be able to continue to operate without this expansion, or do you happen to know what that note is about to do? No, well, I'm not sure. Can you can we speak to that? Yeah, it's an existing condition. Uh originally approved the expansion of the uh uh sanctures all across the street. There was some off-site uh or parking uh off-street parking that was allowed as part of that. So I think um now that's getting more exacerbated than when I move some of that into the uh the parking stalls. So it seems like since there was an addition to the church, then that that kind of triggered the requirement for the additional parking. No, they they well they did that a long time ago back in 2007, which was approved in 2007 they expanded the hall and they expanded the parking lot. There was a uh CP to do the 6-9 stalls back in 2007. Um they did they did the hall, but they but they only did um uh the 16 stalls at that time. Uh I believe the funds right now, and so uh now they're and that CP for the supposedly I heard it was the rest of the program stalls and there wasn't both has expired, and so at that time the city allowed even expansion the hall, even stand at six nine stalls, some additional all-street parking in order for the hall to operate. So normally you don't have all-street parking as part of the project, but they they allowed it because it was uh kind of uh sporadic as far as what what the uh the needs of the uh the members in the past. So and has there been uh I know for operational impact it's stating that there is none. Uh has there been any sort of uh traffic study or any sort of environmental work or anything like that to determine or quantify what impact this could have on the local area? No, no, nothing was done yet. Uh CD require any, but uh all these uh folks that are going there now are already going there now.