03-21-18 Residential Neighborhoods

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SCITY OF SOUTH BEND I OFFICE OF THE CLERK neighborhood and building a subdivision. What we are talking about is small-scale,neighborhood in-fill development. She went on, This (referencing a picture in the presentation) is a trans-sect of different housing types that was put together by a planning firm in California. On the far left of the diagram is the least dense housing type which is a single-family detached house. It then moves in increasing density to the right of the diagram with mid and high-rise apartments that typically appear in a downtown. The space in between the single-family detached house and the mid-rise in the downtown is called the `missing middle housing.' Clearly, although South Bend has more than just single-family detached housing,the single-family detached house is what primarily dominates the region here. We also know that the missing middle housing does exist here in South Bend. She then showed examples with pictures in the presentation. She continued,We aren't talking about introducing alien housing,we are talking about introducing more of what you have because the market is moving to more of the missing middle housing types. The next question is how fast those target households will be rented or bought by the mixed- income families. What we look at is not just absorption,rather,we look at getting an annual capture of that potential market by housing type. So, if we suggest that you could capture ten to twelve percent (10% - 12%) of the multi-family housing types like the rentals and condominiums, and five to seven and a half percent(5%-7.5%) of the single-family attached and detached units,what you wind up with is a market potential capture of nearly six hundred (600)to over seven hundred and sixty-five (765) mixed-income units, per year, over the next five (5) years. That is City-wide and would break out to the three hundred and eighty-one (381) to four hundred and fifty-seven (457) rentals, fifty-six (56) to sixty-eight (68) condominiums, forty-three (43) to sixty-four (64) townhouses, and one hundred and seventeen(117)to one hundred and seventy-six(176) detached houses. That is all new and rehabbed so it is not all new construction. It all encompasses both affordable and market-rate homes. Of those numbers, fifty-one percent (51%) are affordable rentals, forty-three percent(43%) are the condominiums, forty-five(45%) are the townhouses and forty-four percent (44%) are the urban houses. I just want to reiterate we were not looking solely at market-rate; we were looking at both market-rate and affordable. She went on,We had three(3) study areas that are what we call the in-town neighborhoods which are the next set of neighborhoods after the downtown. Study Area A is comprised of Census tracts six(6),nineteen(19)and twenty(20). We designated census tracts but it doesn't meant that is only where new development can happen. We used the census tracts because it is the most reliable way to download data about any given area. Study Area B is comprised of Census tracts seventeen (17),twenty-nine(29)and thirty(30). That actually encompasses a good part of downtown.Again, what we would be focusing on is the area more southeast of downtown. We have already focused on downtown and a lot is already happening there. Study Area C is comprised of Census tracts twenty-two (22), twenty-seven (27), twenty-eight (28) and thirty-four (34). Again, these sections are not to be taken literally in that if you have a potential lot and wanted to build something that was a block outside these lines, you could assume that would still be part of the study area. This (referencing the presentation) is an overview of those three (3) study areas. She continued,As you can see, Study Area C has the largest number of households and population. But you will also see that the composition of households are very different. In Study Area C there are forty-nine (49%) of one (1) and two (2) person households, while there is sixty-six percent (66%) in Study Area B and sixty-one percent (61%) in Study Area A. I thought that was very EXCELLENCE I ACCOUNTABILITY I INNOVATION I INCLUSION I EMPOWERMENT 455 County-City Building i 227W Jefferson Bvld I South Bend,Indiana 466011 p 574.235.9221 If 574.235.9173 TTD 574.235.5567 i vwwvsouthbendin.gov 4