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Planning board backs Saint Teresa multipurpose gym, agrees to enrollment cap change with neighborhood conditions
Summary
The Coral Gables Planning and Zoning Board voted to recommend amendments to an existing ordinance allowing Saint Teresa Catholic School to add a multipurpose building and to formalize a higher enrollment cap, subject to conditions including a covenant, landscaping, and limits on use of fields and evening lighting.
The Coral Gables Planning and Zoning Board on Jan. 15 recommended city commission approval of an amendment to Ordinance No. 2997 to allow a new single‑story, 19,123‑square‑foot multipurpose gym and to raise Saint Teresa Catholic School’s enrollment cap from 881 to 945 students.
The change would align the ordinance with the school’s historical enrollment and permit construction of an indoor gym, performing‑arts stage and supporting classrooms on the northwest quadrant of the campus at 2701 Indian Mound Trail. Suzanne Dougherty, attorney for the applicant, said the gym is required for accreditation by the Florida Catholic Conference and “will allow for all classes and performances to be located safely within the school campus.”
Board members and neighbors spent more than an hour discussing traffic, noise and visual buffering. Neighbors asked the school to keep noisy activities away from…
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