10-12-09 Common Council Meeting Agenda & Packet

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Area Board of Zoning Appeals -September 2, 2009 IN FAVOR MR. RICHARD FEINGOLD: I live at 1011 Donmoyer Avenue in South Bend, Indiana. I own and grew up at 813 Sorin Street. I would like to do the same thing. It's a three bedroom house. And I've maintained it all these years since I've moved away and it's empty right now but it can be fixed up and rented. I use it for storage so I think I could put three students in there and be like every other house in the neighborhood all around me. It would be a good thing to do. If I had more income. Thank you. REMONSTRANCE MS. KATHLEEN PHILLIPS: I live on Almond Avenue. I moved in that house with my mother as a young child, Theodosa Earl, who was a County Council member as well as she was on the Board of Commissioners as well. Now the reasons I have. I have a list but it's not very long for not renting that dwelling. He wants to be let out of his situation because he can't live there unfortunately, you're not the only one there. I am a family member. I have put up with, I have been there for 41 years as I stated. Every house around there is going to Notre Dame students. It is horrible. It is a (couldn't understand what she said) in front of my house right now that they put up. It's a huge building. It's right there on the corner of South Bend Avenue and St. Peter Street. There's one across the street. There's always parties. There's always drinking. They're trespassing because they're walking across my yard. They're walking in the yard. They're urinating on the property. I've had to chase them off when they were throwing garbage in my yard from their yards. He wants to be let out of his situation because he feels like he's the only person there that is a family now and everything else is going out of the selling and moving. Well if you let him out of his situation who's going to let me out of mine to be back into a family? What is a neighborhood? That's my question. What's happened? We have no neighborhood. All of the people come and go. There's no permanent residents because they're Notre Dame students. Only one or two families now are on St. Peter. I guess he's one of them. All the rest are Notre Dame students with noise all hours of the night and day. Littering, parties, parking problems. You can't go to the store, I can't go home after working ten hours a day and come home and park in front of my house without going from door to door, like the traffic police to find out who owns this vehicle. We have to give up our neighborhoods or what's left of it for non permanent residents. There's a home for sex offenders right there on South Bend Avenue, and of course nobody told us about that. Madison Center has put up homes around the area that are scattered sites. They have all of Niles Avenue to Hill Street. Our neighborhood doesn't mean neighbors anymore. Where are the neighbors, he run them off. That's probably why they're called hoods now. There's no neighbor in neighborhood. And most of our city has moved to Mishawaka which I'm sure is going to be name Mishabend because there's nothing left in South Bend. Why should we have to be run out of our home to satisfy Notre Dame. To satisfy Notre Dame. The parking across the street, 1 mean that's fine with me. I mean I'm a family. I gretiv up in that home. I have family that lives around the area and when they come there's no parking. I mean we can't have cookouts. We can't sleep at night. Most of their homes are in the back of my house so when I'm being brave and up the windows on a nice summer night I hear rah, yah, go Notre Dame and then the drinking. Okay, I'm almost done. Also what's going to happen to us as families? He said, his attorney or whoever this guy is, says that it's idealistic but it's unrealistic. That's bull crap. And it's very realistic. I am not going anywhere so why should I have to move because he wants to leave the neighborhood. Go ahead. I welcome him to leave. Let another family come into that neighborhood. If we keep moving out of the city and moving out of the city and 41