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Board approves Trinity Presbyterian’s small meditation chapel with parking and replat conditions after neighbors raise concerns
Summary
The Fairhope Board of Adjustment voted unanimously Oct. 20 to allow a 700-square-foot ‘memory’ or meditation chapel at Trinity Presbyterian Church, conditioned on a parking layout plan and an administrative replat to combine parcels. Neighbors raised concerns about parking, noise and possible future expansion on adjacent church-owned lots.
The Fairhope Board of Adjustment on Oct. 20 approved BOA 25.12 to allow construction of a roughly 700‑square‑foot memory or meditation chapel on church-owned property near Fig Avenue, subject to two staff conditions: provision of a parking-layout plan showing compliant parking for the fellowship hall and the new chapel, and completion of an administrative replat combining the relevant church parcels prior to issuance of building permits.
Staff presented the site as an undeveloped portion of the larger Trinity Presbyterian Church complex, noting several historic lot lines across the property and that…
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