04/24/72 Board of Public Works Minutes

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�2'78 April 24, 1972 provided that only the marriage ceremony itself be performed there and that the property be left in the same condition as is was found .prior to the ceremony. And the Clerk is ordered to notify the Park Depart- ment of this action. DEPARTMENT OF REDEVELOPMENT - REQUESTS A letter from Glenn Barbe, Associate Director, Department of'RedeVelop- ment, requesting that the appropriate city agency investigate the possibility of vacating the unused railroad tracks along Niles Avenue was ordered filed with the Board. William J. Richardson, City Engineer, advised the Board this his department is pursuing this possibility, and that action will betaken on this matter in the near. future. Another letter addressed to the Board from Mr. Barbe requested that the City clean and dress up its property along Niles Avenue in keeping with the rehabilitation theme in the.Northeast Code Area. This property in- cludes the Street Department Storage Lots. Mr. Barbels 'letter was or- dered filed with the Board and Mr. Richardson advised the Board that these lots are now in the process of being cleaned up. It was sug- gested that Mr. James Barcome, City Controller, look into the possi- bility of auctioning the old parts and vehicles that are stored on the property. VACATION PETITION FILED - LOUIS E. SMOGOR Louis E. Smogor and Klementene K. Smogor, by their attorney, George P. Roberts, 811 J.M.S. Building, South Bend, Indiana, file their petition for the vacation of an unnamed street running north from East Edison Road and located adjacent to the property commonly known as 2109 East Edison Road, South Bend, Indiana, and more particularly described as a line adjacent to and immediately west of Lots Numbered 1, 9, 10, and 11 as shown on the recorded plat of Robinwood Place, a Subdivision in the East Half of the Southeast Quarter of the Southeast Quarter of the Southeast Quarter of Section 31, Township 38 North, Range 3 East, re- corded in Plat Book 14, Page R. Upon motion made, seconded and unanimously carried, the petition was referred to the Engineering Department and the Area Plan Commission, simultaneously, for study and recommendation to the Board. AREA PLAN RECOMMENDATION _ - PETITION OF INDIANA & MICHIGAN ELECTRIC CO. The Area Plan Commission, Howard Bellinger, Executive Director, files with the Board its favorable recommendation for the vacation of the following: A part of the first north -south alley west of Ironwood Drive, running south 133.45' from the south right of way line of the Grand Trunk and Western Railroad, said petition having been submitted by the Indiana & Michigan Electric Company. Upon motion made, seconded and unanimously carried, the Board approved the favorable recommendation of the Area Plan Commission, and the City Engineer is directed to prepare a Vacation Resolution. ASSESSMENT ROLL FILED - VACATION RESOLUTION NO. 3356, 1972 William J. Richardson, City Engineer, files with the Board the Assess- ment Roll, showing the award of damages and the assessment of bene- fits in Vacation Resolution No. 3356, 1972, for the vacation of: Meade Street from the South right of way line of Westmore,Street, south to'the north right of way line of Roger Street Longley Street from the west right of way line of Meade Street west to the east right of way line of Eclipse Place..