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South Bend Redevelopment Commission <br />Regular Meeting –February 5, 2010 <br /> <br />6. NEW BUSINESS (CONT.) <br /> <br />C. Airport Economic Development Area <br /> <br />(1) continued… <br /> <br />scope of work for creating an Area Land Use <br />Planning and Zoning Strategy for Ignition <br />Park. <br /> <br />Lakota will investigate the necessary <br />regulations, planning, design, and zoning <br />mechanisms that could be added to the area’s <br />Development Plan to protect the park. Parts <br />of this study area are residential in nature, <br />and these areas would remain residential, <br />with the exception of the already identified <br />area north of Indiana Avenue to the rail road <br />tracks, between Franklin and Prairie. <br /> <br />With the Commission’s approval, Lakota <br />will begin the process outlined in the <br />attached proposal, with a completion date <br />projected for July of this year. Staff requests <br />the approval of this proposal, to begin the <br />process of protecting Ignition Park and its <br />surrounding area. <br /> <br />Mr. Gilot, Director of the Board of Public <br />Works and city representative to the Area <br />Plan Commission gave his support for the <br />proposed Area Land Use Planning and <br />Zoning Strategy. The two key parameters <br />are incompatible uses that would have either <br />too much electromagnetic force or too much <br />vibration for the sensitive technology uses <br />expected within the park. And, if this park is <br />to be the centerpiece of the new economic <br />development in South Bend, it needs to have <br />the appropriate visual characteristics that will <br />attract companies that will have choices of <br />where to locate. He said we want the <br /> 16 <br /> <br />