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1/8/2018
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codified by ND,NENC, and South Bend for this neighborhood, and this vision does NOT include the expanded <br /> building size and mixed use proposed for 806 Howard Street. <br /> C. Our own street parking will also be adversely affected by the proposed addition of street parking for 35+ <br /> more cars in the vicinity of 806 Howard street. <br /> D. The value and safe use of our neighborhood's Keller Park, by our own as well as our neighbors' children, <br /> also will be adversely affected by the additional traffic and street parking. <br /> 3. "The proposed use will be consistent with the character of the district in which it is located and the <br /> land uses authorized therein." <br /> A. The planned expansion and use of the property at 806 Howard Street is completely out of character with its <br /> immediate neighbors,and violates the standards that have been carefully agreed upon by the Northeast <br /> Neighborhood Community and already accepted as an overlay by the ABZA. <br /> B. The addition of non-primary rental space,particularly space that will be open to undergraduate college <br /> students, would both adversely affect the value of of adjacent properties,but also directly contravenes the <br /> purposes and plans laid out by the NENC zoning overlay. <br /> C. Finally: There is already a very carefully planned mixed-use area under development on Eddy Street. <br /> Meanwhile,there has been NO neighborhood discussion or approval for a single, massively over-built, mixed- <br /> use building in the middle of a single home residential area of the neighborhood. Further, The Eddy Street <br /> Commons development also adheres to our neighborhood zoning overlays in a way that the proposed plans for <br /> 806 Howard do not. <br /> 4 "The proposed use is compatible with the recommendations of the City of South Bend Comprehensive <br /> Plan." <br /> A. The City of South Bend and the ABZA have already accepted and codified the northeast neighborhood <br /> (NENC) plan as a legal subset of the city's overall plan. The City gives preference to the NENC overlay <br /> requirement, for example, that our fences be no taller than 5 feet, even though the City itself allows for 6 foot <br /> tall fences. Therefore,the City of South Bend has already demonstrated its acknowledgement that the NENC <br /> standards are a legal subset of the City's Comprehensive Plan, and these NENC standards also apply to the <br /> property at 806 Howard Street. These standards do not allow for the proposed changes to this property, nor does <br /> the City's Comprehensive Plan provide any basis for overturning NENC's standards by default. <br /> B. Finally, we have already had a disturbing precedent in both the original building at 806 Howard Street <br /> which was developed despite great opposition in the early 1990's, as well as the more recent development at <br /> 1121 North Notre Dame Avenue property, in which the by-now-extant NENC plan was disregarded, and the <br /> NENC not given a full chance to review. It is my understanding that even the city has acknowledged that this <br /> should not have happened. <br /> It seems that in in the case of 806 Howard Street,the NENC once again has not been given a chance to meet, <br /> review or comment on the proposed variances before the ABZA meets to rule on them on December 6. <br /> Every time the neighborhood zoning is ignored and the NENC left out of the vetting process,both the <br /> community's and City's plans are further eroded. What a shame, after so many people have spent so much time <br /> and money on the vision and plans for our neighborhood,plans in which—Again-mixed use areas of high <br /> value to the community and the city have already been included on North Eddy Street. <br /> 2 <br />
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