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the City. The only thing I can ask you folks to do when you decide on this project is to think about it as if we were city residents and you were putting all this around our neighborhood. Randall Chrobot, 24554 Rolling Oak Dr., stated, My wife and I have lived in German Township for thirty-eight(38) years. I sent each council member an email that outlines what I saw as the negative effects and my objections to the proposed zoning, I hope you've had an opportunity to read that email. I will not reiterate those concerns but I would like to make a few additional points. I take objection to the traffic studies from the MACOG website, all of them were conducted before the completion of the development on the southeast side, so we have not seen all the potential traffic concerns and will make it worse by the proposed rezoning. Most of the German Township residents are not opposed to developing that area, what we are opposed to is rezoning to entirely Light-Industrial. There were a few individuals that spoke in favor of the rezoning, but neither the developer nor the landowner live in German Township. Both have an obvious self-serving interest and since neither of them live in German Township,they will be immune to the negative effects of the proposed rezoning. These individuals don't care about German Township residents. This is not about business. CTDI will not leave South Bend if this zoning is not approved,they will simply find another location to expand. This is about the residents of German Township, it's about their quality of life. I encourage the Council to have the good judgment, decency and courage to do the right thing and vote no on the proposed rezoning petition. Jeff Nicklas, 23821 Adams Rd., stated, I'm proposing that the three hundred and fifteen thousand (315,000) square foot building is too much for that area. I have a residential house there and the building just outweighs everything in that area. The picture is not updated at all. We have residential neighborhoods and it's devastating for everybody there. I don't want to live there. I called IDM in La Porte and they have no plans in place for the next couple years for that bridge over the bypass. You have potholes big enough to put a basketball in. FedEX, Pepsi, AM General are all there with semi-trucks. To cross Adams Road seems unbelievable. And the problem is only going to get bigger. It's just too much right now and there is no plan. FedEX said they wouldn't have fuel tanks underground but they do and we are concerned about run-off and contamination. That bridge won't handle that traffic and I don't see how you can make it happen like that at this time. Committee Chair Davis offered a chance of rebuttal from the petitioner of the bill. Mr. McMorrow stated, With respect to water and sewer, as was anticipated when the Portage Prairie plan was approved in 2005, the plan is to expand the public water and sewer from Dylan Drive northward. We are not proposing well and septic so there is not going to be an adverse impact on anyone that has well and septic in the neighborhood. With respect to storm water run- off, it is going to be directed to basins on site that will be maintained by property owners, not the City. We've scheduled geotechnical testing for later this week. We will have that conversation with the City with regard to the proper intersection to move not only trucks but pedestrians that cross. We are extending the walkway system on Dylan Drive northward into this project. This is not a warehouse and distribution business, it is a small parts plant and will only have about four (4) or five (5)trucks a day so the amount of truck traffic is far less with this particular user. 12