PASADENA, Calif. (KABC) -- A Catholic school in Pasadena is speaking out against a construction project that has some community members worried about security and traffic hazards.

CalTech wants to build a new facility on one of its rarely used parking lots on the corner of Green Street and Holliston Avenue.

The parking lot is steps away from St. Philip the Apostle Church.

"Our [ transitional kindergarten ] classroom is 88 feet away from the edge of this parking lot, so you start from the beginning from the building of itself ... it's going to be a 93,000 square-foot building," said Christina Blacker, a parent at the school. "The noise ... the dust from a safety and health perspective for the kids."

CalTech, in partnership with the Trammell Crow Company, wants to develop the lot in

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