The look and landscaping for a new two-story church building with offices, a warming kitchen and cafeteria to be constructed at St. Timothy’s Catholic School were discussed at a recent meeting of the Mesa Design Review Board.
A building will be demolished and replaced with a multipurpose building to serve the church and school west of Alma School Road and north of Guadalupe Road, Planner Evan Balmer said at the board’s June 13 meeting.
“Here you can see the site plan; we have three existing classroom buildings, the new two-story building on the frontage. There is shared parking with an entrance through the church south of this site,” he said. “It is an existing site, so there is existing landscaping including some sissoo that will be maintained on the site.”
Other trees and shrubs include Texas ebony, southern live oak, shoestring acacia, yellow lucky nut tree, valentine bush, pale leaf yucca, blue bells, desert senna, regal mist grass and torch glow bougainvillea, according to the landscape plan.
Vince Di Bella of Adaptive Architects Inc., is the applicant. St. Timothy Roman Catholic Parish — Mesa is the owner.
The all-volunteer Mesa Design Review Board is unique in that its composition is set by the zoning ordinance to include two architects; two from other design professions such as landscape architecture, engineering, urban planning, interior design or other design-related background; one contractor or developer; and two residents, according to the city’s website.
Richard H. Dyer can be reached at rdyer@iniusa.org, or on Twitter @rhdyer. To voice your opinion on this story, connect with us at AzOpinions@iniusa.org.
Richard Dyer Managing Editor | East Valley @RHDyer
Meet Richard Richard Dyer has worked at Independent Newsmedia Inc. USA since 1987, starting his career in Apache Junction as a copy editor and being promoted over the years to work as the editor of the Mesa Independent, news services editor for the East Valley office in Apache Junction, managing editor for the East Valley office, news services editor for the East Valley office and eventually also for the newspapers at INI’s then-Chandler office, managing editor again and as a news editor covering Apache Junction/Gold Canyon and Queen Creek. He helped start the Florence Independent while the news editor covering Apache Junction and Mesa news. In January 2023, he became associate managing editor for the East Valley newspapers and in August 2023 became managing editor for the East Valley newspapers of Chandler/Tempe, Gilbert, Queen Creek, Florence, Mesa and Apache Junction/Gold Canyon, while also reporting on Mesa and Apache Junction/Gold Canyon.
Community: Since 2009, he has worked as a volunteer to design The Blue Guitar Magazine, Blue Guitar Jr. magazine and Unstrung magazine, which are projects of The Arizona Consortium for the Arts; and since 2014, has been overseeing the art submissions.
Education: University of Arizona with a master of arts in journalism and a bachelor of science in agricultural communication. Also continuing education at Mesa Community College in welding in a metal art sculpture class.
Random fact: Saw his first tornado on May 31, 2010, which was classified as an EF-2, as part of a stormchasing tour group.
Hobbies: He is an artist of welded-steel sculptures, selling his artwork at juried and non-juried art shows.
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