Special Exception - 1939 Charles St., South Bend, IN 46637

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Area Board of Zoning Appeals — March 3, 2010 REMONSTRANCE MR. STEPHEN FARCKAS: I'm 92 and I live adjacent to the property at 1947 Charles Street which Mr. Wynen wants to expand into parking. I have really four questions. More that are explanatory of what Mr. Wynen's plans really are. If I can ask the questions now. The first question really concerns all our neighbors. We'd like to know for sure if there are going to be entrance and exits on Charles Street from this parking lot? MR. URBANSKI: Why don't you ask the four questions sir and then Pat will come back up and answer your questions for you. MR. FAREKAS: Okay. The second question then is, over the area of the parking lot is he going to leave the condition of the ground as it is or pave it over with asphalt? And the third question, is when that board fence line is going to actually be along our property line there? And the fourth question, I have some Evergreens I've planted 61 years ago and they're about 60' high and I just wonder what will be the status of those if he puts his board fence real close to my property line. Those are the four questions. MR. URBANSKI: Very good and he will answer them for you and I thank you. REBUTTAL: MR.- BROWN: As far as the access onto Charles Street, there will be no driveway on Charles. Just as the current parking lot they come around the end of the building, this to parking lot will be expanded off of that parking lot and they'll exist that way so there will be no more traffic on Charles. The parking lot, the previous parking lot was built out of concrete and basically just followed the lawn, the same slope and that's the intent here that this will follow same slope and we again looking at a concrete parking lot as opposed to asphalt. The house will remain and the concrete will start at the back of the house and go up to the end of the parking lot that's there now. MR. FAREKAS ASKED MR. BROWN A QUESTION FROM THE AUDIENCE THAT WAS NOT PICKED UP ON THE TAPE MR. BROWN: Back in 2007 when we talked to you about it, we knew those tall Evergreens were on your property, you planted. What we're going to do now if we get the approval, we're going to get a surveyor to go out and find that exact line and then the intent is the fence is going to go near the property line on Brian's property. The intent is once we get approval, get a surveyor out there and located the true property line, hopefully we'll find out all those Evergreens are on your property. If they end up on Brian's property we may have to talk a little bit more. But the intent is the fence will go right down the property line but we may have a little bit of lead way if the fence has to move 6 inches, 12 inches, a little bit to go around the trees to protect them. But the intent is not to take down the trees. The fence by ordinance I believe is 6 feet. So once we put the fence up there may be a branch or two that may have to be pruned, but the intent is to leave all the Evergreens. Now as far as the Lilac bush, we'll just have to see when it falls on which side of the line. 12