Church to discuss parking proposal

Two informational meetings to discuss a $3.5-million parking proposal

for Newport Harbor High School will be held by St. Andrews

Presbyterian Church officials Tuesday. The church is seeking a

30-year agreement with the Newport-Mesa Unified School District to

share parking at the high school. In exchange, the church would spend

$3.5 million to reconfigure the school’s parking lot, and to pay for

other projects at the school’s discretion if money was left over.

A parking agreement was one condition of the city Planning

Commission’s approval of a controversial church expansion project,

but the church has said it will seek the parking pact even without

the still-pending expansion. The meetings will be Tuesday at 10 a.m.

at the church, 600 St. Andrews Road, Newport Beach, and at 7 p.m. in

Portable 9 at Newport Harbor High School, 600 Irvine Ave., Newport

Beach.