The Ballard Food Bank board decided to discontinue the food bank’s meal program at the Calvary Lutheran Church and has plans to reconsider the program once they find a new building.

“We don’t have the capacity to police that big of an area between 15th Avenue and 24th Avenue Northwest and the behavior of our clients is such the impact on the neighborhood is not appropriate,” Nancy McKinney, executive director of Ballard Food Bank said.

The food bank announced in February that they are seeking to move in 2010 or 2011 after the current land owners decided to develop the property.

McKinney said they’ve had difficulty with deliveries in a residential area where streets are built for smaller vehicles.

They hope to find a new location closer to bus lines or out of city neighborhoods in the Ballard or Interbay area.