Pasadena council approves All Saints safe‑parking program over neighborhood opposition

The Pasadena City Council voted to approve a minor conditional use permit allowing a 25‑space safe parking program at All Saints Church, 202 North Euclid Avenue, after an extended public hearing that drew dozens of supporters and opponents.

City staff recommended the permit, saying the overnight program — limited to 7:00 p.m. to 6:30 a.m. and capped at 25 participant vehicles — qualifies for categorical CEQA exemptions (Class 1, 3 and 11). Baylen, the city’s zoning administrator, summarized the proposal and staff’s legal analysis, telling the council the program would operate on contiguous church parcels and would not materially impair the historic resources in the Pasadena Civic Center historic district.

Erica Tambling, the applicant and a parishioner at All Saints who chairs the Safe Haven Bridge to Housing program, said the site would be run by the operator Showers of Hope and reviewed before participants are admitted. “Participants must have a license, registration and insurance for their vehicles, register in advance and display a parking pass,” Tambling said in her presentation. Mel Dela Caratna, the proposed operator, described operational rules including no idling, a staffed security guard on site during…