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REGULAR MEETING January 8, 2018 Angela Smith,Area Plan Commission, with offices on the 11th Floor of the County-City Building, South Bend, IN, served as the presenter of this bill. Ms. Smith stated, This text amendment is sort of an administrative cleanup and a way to transition the City Administration, from the Building Department to the Area Plan Commission. The first portion deals with how rezoning petitions are filed. For all of 2017, we had an expedited process where people filed with the Area Plan Commission instead of the Clerk's Office. We handled a lot of the paperwork for them. This tidies up and catches the ordinance up to the current procedures we've been using for the last year. The other part of this ordinance is that any place where the Building Department was listed as where requests related to the Area Board of Zoning Appeals should be filed, we were changing that to the Area Plan Commission. There was one (1) instance where we needed to change from the Zoning Administrator to the Building Commissioner for the floodplain. "Check below, as the Building Commissioner will retain floodplain administration." So,that's all handled in this ordinance. This comes to you from the Area Plan Commission with a favorable recommendation. This being the time heretofore set for the Public Hearing on the above bill,proponents and opponents were given an opportunity to be heard. None from the public wished to speak in favor of or opposition to this bill. Councilmember Tim Scott made a motion to send Bill No. 85-17 to the full Council with a favorable recommendation Councilmember Karen White seconded the motion which carried by a voice vote of eight (8) ayes. 86-17 PUBLIC HEARING ON AN ORDINANCE INITIATED BY THE AREA PLAN COMMISSION OF ST. JOSEPH COUNTY AMENDING CHAPTER 21 OF THE SOUTH BEND MUNICIPAL CODE,ARTICLE 10 ENFORCEMENT BY ADDING THE AREA PLAN COMMISSION TO THE DESIGNATED ENFORCEMENT STAFF. Councilmember Oliver Davis, Chair of the Zoning and Annexation Committee, reported that they met this afternoon and send this bill forward with a favorable recommendation. Angela Smith,Area Plan Commission, with offices on the 11 th Floor of the County-City Building, South Bend, IN, served as the presenter of this bill. Ms. Smith stated, This section deals with the enforcement chapter of the ordinance. We wanted to treat this as separate from the last text amendment just so we had a better opportunity to work with Code Enforcement and the Building Department to help define their proper roles. What this essentially does is allows for the Area Plan Commission as the zoning enforcement agency, along with the Building Department and Code Enforcement.Anything that was previously under the primary responsibility of Code Enforcement will be retained and the Building Department will still have the authority to enforce any of the ordinances that they need to, as well. This comes to you from the Area Plan Commission with a favorable recommendation. This being the time heretofore set for the Public Hearing on the above bill,proponents and opponents were given an opportunity to be heard. None from the public wished to speak in favor of or opposition to this bill. Councilmember Oliver Davis made a motion to send Bill No. 86-17 to the full Councir with a favorable recommendation Councilmember Tim Scott seconded the motion which carried by a voice vote of eight(8) ayes. 87-17 PUBLIC HEARING ON AN ORDINANCE INITIATED BY THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, AMENDING CHAPTER 21 OF THE SOUTH BEND MUNICIPAL CODE,ARTICLE 13 6