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<br />VACATION RESOLUTION NO. 2800 - 1954
<br />This being the date set, hearing was held..on the assessment roll showing the
<br />award of damages and the assessment of benefits `yin the matter of vacation of TEN FOOT
<br />PUBLIC WALKWAY BETWEEN LOTS 314 and 315 IN EDISON PARK ADDITION AND TEN FOOT PUBLIC
<br />WALKWAY BETWEEN LOTS 333;af,id 334Y xxt 3-3.1 IN.EDISON PARK ADDITION, under Vacation
<br />Resolution No. 2800, and 1i}:foot public alley between lots 328, 329, 330 and 331.
<br />• In the above named assessment roll, no remonstrators appeared and no written
<br />remonstrances were filed, the Clerk of the Board submitted proofs of publication of
<br />notices and same were found sufficient, and the. Board., therefore, finds that the several
<br />lots and parcels of land have been benefited and damaged in the amounts shown on said
<br />roll. The Board, therefore, decided to take final action on said assessment roll and
<br />declares same in all things ratified, confirmed and approved without modification, and
<br />the proceedings closed, and the walkways and alley vacated upon receipt of the amount
<br />1_of benefit assessments from the various property owners so benefited and all proceedings
<br />l had with reference to said vacation are hereby sustained.
<br />The Board next examined the report of Traffic Engineer, E. H. Miller, dated
<br />jOctober 27, 1954, relative to the blocking of the Sunnyside Avenue railroad crossing
<br />l�by the Grand Trunk Western R. R. Companyts special football train, in line with the
<br />(railroad companyts request. The Board then directed the Clerk to inform the Grand
<br />Trunk Western Railroad Company that their request must be denied, and to furnish copy
<br />�lof the Traffic Engineerts report for the railroad companyts information and guidance.
<br />The Board next considered and passed the following resolution:
<br />BE IT RESOLVED: that additional right of way be granted to the west side
<br />hof Bendix Drive, from Lincolnway West north to Elwood Avenue, to conform with the
<br />114existing right of way on Bendix Drive south of Lincolnway West, AND
<br />FURTHER BE IT RESOLVED, that a set -back building line be established to provide
<br />'for the anticipated widening of Bendix Drive north of Lincolnway West.
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<br />Next appeared before the Board, Mr. R. W. Goheen, representing the National
<br />Bank and Trust Company, together with another official of this bank and the architect,
<br />presenting plans for the proposed drive-in branch bank on the west side of South
<br />Michigan Street, between Indiana Avenue and Dubail Avenue. The architeetts drawing
<br />was carefully studied and after considerable discussion, in which the Traffic Engineer
<br />and the City Civil Engineer took active part, the Board approved the proposed con-
<br />struction under the condition that the tellerts window be located at a point sufficiently
<br />distant to the west to permit a second car on -the drive without encroaching upon the
<br />sidewalk and:that a.suitable sign shall be placed on the building warning patrons, to
<br />avoid blocking public walk, and a further condition being the construction ofa con-
<br />crete bumper strip along the building.
<br />Mr. Goheents attention was called to the necessity of securing a permit from
<br />the State Highway_Commission, and the Board informed -Mr. Goheen the City Permit would
<br />be forthcoming promptly thereafter.
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<br />The Board next examined -and approved Contract Supplement No. 1, pertaining to
<br />Contract No. P-5; Independent Concrete Pipe Company, Contractor, upon the recommendation
<br />of the consulting engineers, Consoer, Townsend and Associates.
<br />RESOLUTION ADOPTING FINAL ASSESSMENT;ROLL
<br />RESOLUTION NO. 2794 - GRANT STREET LOCAL SEWER
<br />After hearing all persons interested who appeared and the Clerk of the Board of
<br />iiPublic Works and Safety having proofs of publication of the notices to property owners
<br />land the same having been found sufficient, therefore,
<br />jl BE IT RESOLVED, by the Board of Public Works and Safety of the City of South Bend,
<br />;;Indiana, that the Primary or preliminary Assessment Roll adopted by the Board on the 18th',
<br />T4day of October, 1954, for the improvement of GRANT STREET by constructing a local sewer
<br />he and the same is in all things confirmed.
<br />R.S.Andrysiak
<br />J.A. Bickel
<br />I.A. Jurwich
<br />Board of Public Works & Sa ety
<br />rd H. Crothers
<br />erk of t e Board
<br />A bond for excavation, in the sum of $1,000.00, for John B. Hendricks was
<br />amined and approved by the Board.
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