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South Bend Redevelopment Commission <br />Regular Meeting –April 9, 2010 <br /> <br />point, since there has been no effective <br />communication, the Keszeis are left to <br />attempt to determine what is transpiring and <br />ask questions. Nearby property owners, both <br />residential and businesses, have not been <br />notified that the private property that they <br />currently own might soon be adjacent to a <br />retention pond. (I personally went to Mutual <br />Bank and the Dental office, Fitness USA, <br />they have no communication from the City of <br />South Bend. I feel that is very negligent and <br />unjustified. Why not notify everybody that’s <br />going to be in the area? Why are these <br />people, who clearly have an interest being <br />excluded at this point? That fact that every <br />Emery and Marian Keszei have lived there <br />since 1958, 52 years, should not be dismissed <br />as irrelevant. They acquired two lots, built on <br />this property and landscaped it, and enhanced <br />the image of South Bend long before others <br />did the same. They have paid their property <br />taxes much longer than others who have just <br />recently developed their properties. It <br />appears to them that since they don’t pay <br />much property taxes as private developers in <br />the area, their property has been chosen to be <br />converted. Compared to the Keszeis’ 52 <br />years in the area, Erskine Village and Erskine <br />Plaza, these other people are new comers. <br />When the village and plaza were built the <br />developers failed to acquire the amount of <br />property necessary to support the use they <br />chose for their property they developed. They <br />apparently did not obtain or develop enough <br />property for water to run off. Since they have <br />not received any communication other than <br />the afore-mentioned notice, the Keszeis <br />assumed that public funds would be used to <br />obtain their property instead of the <br />developer’s funds, thereby increasing <br />citizen’s taxes, as well as the developer’s <br />profit. In addition, the Keszeis daughter, <br /> 21 <br /> <br />