A request by a local nonprofit to tweak the city’s zoning laws to allow a transitional living facility for homeless people near the former ParkView Regional Medical Center was expected to be tabled when the Vicksburg Board of Zoning Appeals meets today, officials said.

In an e-mail to the board, Mountain of Faith Ministries asked the panel to delay its request at least a month but left no additional instructions, zoning administrator Dalton McCarty said.

“It is still on the agenda, but it will have to be tabled at their request,” McCarty said. The board meets at 5 p.m.

The organization plans an “open-house forum” on transitional housing sometime this month, Mountain of Faith executive director Tina Hayward said when reached Monday. A site had not been chosen, she said.

The Vicksburg-based nonprofit proposed a center to help up to 25 people find permanent housing through a two-year program of various life skills and financial counseling. To make it happen, the group had asked the zoning panel to change how 16.2 acres of property at the old hospital is zoned.

Currently, structures formerly home to the hospital, Marian Hill chemical dependency center and the Sisters of Mercy convent are zoned CBR-4, for commercial, business and multifamily residential buildings.

If completed, the old convent would house the facility, Hayward told about 50 residents of the neighborhood opposed the plan who gathered at Anshe Chesed Temple, the city’s Jewish synagogue, just outside the neighborhood.