COSTA MESA
The Planning Commission voted Monday to allow a local church to shelter 13 homeless women.
Pastor Bill Gartner of the Harbor Christian Fellowship said he expects the shelter to be running by April.
Surrender House will provide single homeless women with shelter and food for two to six months. A caseworker will help the women, who are working but can’t afford rent or a hotel room, to get their lives in place, Gartner said.
The city learned about the shelter on West Wilson Street in December 1998.
The church provided beds and food for 13 homeless men until city officials shut it down in April. It did not meet city codes requiring restrooms and a kitchen to be attached to the shelter, Gartner said. Those deficiencies have since been corrected, Gartner said.
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