A Catholic parish in Fresno wants to convert a grass parcel in Fresno’s Tower District neighborhood into a 69-car parking lot.
Currently, the Shrine of St. Therese Church on Wishon and Floradora avenues has a 16-angled parking stalls on the southwest corner of Floradora and Maroa avenues. The lot is largely empty during the week, except for an occasional Fresno police car. St. Therese also has a larger parking lot adjacent to the church that’s accessible from Wishon Avenue.
Now, the Diocese of Fresno Education Corporation is proposing to replace the 16-stall parking lot with a larger, 69-stall parking lot to serve the church. To do this, the diocese will replace the existing spaces with 90-degree parking stalls as well as expand into the fenced-off grass field it owns along Maroa Avenue, according to a notice from the City of Fresno’s planning department…