10-12-09 Common Council Meeting Agenda & Packet

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<<lrea Board of Zoning Appeals -September 2, 2009 MR. LIPSKY: I would assume it would eliminate at least 12. IN FAVOR MS. JOY CARPENTER: I'm a resident at 309 S. Kaley Street and that's the side of the Taste of Mexico. I came here because I wasn't sure exactly what this petition was all about so in view of understanding that the gentleman stated, I agree with that petition for the additional parking lot because before it was a big problem on Kaley Street. People would park across the driveways and so forth and with him being able to put the parking spots, that will probably rectify some of that problem on Kaley Street. MR. HENRY DAVIS JR.: Offices on the 4`h floor of the County-City Building, 227 W. Jefferson Blvd. I'm in favor of it. Actually I was speaking with his counsel and the restaurant owner about two or three weeks ago. They actually gave me a tour of the building. I lived on Sheridan Street my entire life so I never knew what the inside of Starlite Pizza looked like. I remember going in there once with my dad when I was a very little boy. But the truth is I really, really think that we need to start helping and fostering the growth of businesses in South Bend. We have had a mass exodus of businesses leaving our area, going to Granger, going to Mishawaka, closing down, or even Eddy Street Commons. And so where we are able to help this growth we need to and so I'm in favor of the mixed use, the business and the parking lot across the street. Whatever we can do to retain the business, retain the tax dollars so that we can continue to grow our neighborhoods. MR. UItBANSKI: We did receive one letter from a Barbara White, 302 S. Kaley Street. Cannot attend the meeting, letting the Taste of Mexico having a parking lot across the street from their business might indeed help the neighborhood in getting rid of the damage. We in the neighborhood have put up with trash, broken bottles, loud voices at 3 a.m., urinating in our yards, cars driving over our yards, bottles being thrown over fences into our yards, car alarms going off at 3 a.m. and of course people trampling my flowers and destroying my border fences on numerous occasions not to mention their patrons blocking driveways and street. REMONSTRANCE MR. EMILIO GALVEZ: I live at 2630 Western Ave. South Bend. I am not against the parking lot but I'm just concerned about the alley because I own the property next to the property for the parking lot and this is where we go to the upstairs. There's an apartment upstairs and we did a petition in 2005 for the alley and I have the certificate for the alley that belongs to the property, our property, the 14'. MR. URBANSKI: Now is that the alley that runs east and west? MR. GALVEZ: Yes. MR. URBANSKI: And you say that was vacated? MR. GALVEZ: Yes, it was vacated in 2005 and that was given to the next property not to the parking lot. A COPY OF THE AERIAL WAS MADE AND GIVEN TO MR. GALVEZ 34