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CITY OF SOUTH BEND I OFFICE OF THE CLERK Subdivision Ordinance and the other standards in the City even can conflict. The primary goal for the amendments are not to change standards but to pull out the places where it is redundant or conflicting. The Area Plan Commission has identified, in the Subdivision Ordinance, the flood plain definitions, the lot sizes and the setback standards that will be covered elsewhere in the Zoning Ordinance. Additionally,the street and alley width and construction standards are already being handled through the Board of Public Works' design and construction standards. So rather than having two (2) sets of standards, we would like to pull those out of the Ordinance. Committee Chair Davis asked, Are you going to put something together to pull all of that out? Mr. Divita replied, Yes we will have a summary prepared on those. Those amendments will go before the Area Plan Commission for their meeting in Au ust. Bill No. 24-18- Revise Off-Street Parking Re;ulations Angela Smith, Deputy Director of the Area Plan Commission with offices on the I Ph floor of the County-City Building, stated, The Zoning Ordinance only applies to what is on private property. I believe the ordinance that the Council recently passed deals with right-of-way and legal parking within the right-of-way. That is usually handled by the Board Public Works so that is not under the Zoning Ordinance jurisdiction. The revisions you have before you for the off-street parking are the ones happening on private property in relation to developments going on within an individual's lot. So one (1) of the things we take into account in this zoning change is something I would like to thank the Department of Community Investment for their research in best practices. Parking and landscaping are the two (2) things we see the most variances for. Part of it is because we took a suburban standard way of looking at parking and tried to apply it to the City which doesn't really work. We looked at how that works. For instance one (1) of the things is now on street parking can be counted toward a business' parking. The bottom line is that the parking standards were way antiquated for the way people were actually using the properties within South Bend. They didn't fit with the urban context.Usually the people most affected by these are the small business owners. This realigns-the requirements with what is practical and applicable to South Bend. This comes to you from the Area Plan Commission with a favorable recommendation. Mr. Divita stated, Community Investment was pleased to work with the Area Plan Commission staff on developing this proposed ordinance amendment. As Angela mentioned, the Zoning Ordinance's current minimum parking standards are based on a decades old suburban parking calculation that doesn't translate well to today's realities and context. The existing minimum counts tend to oversupply off-street parking that requires developers to go through the expense of building parking spaces that will never be used. Using aerial photography,we analyzed the current parking needs for various uses around the City to better calibrate what the minimum standards should be. The proposed amendments would provide greater flexibility in how off-street parking requirements can be met including a reduction in required parking near transit.The bicycle parking provisions are updated to align the Ordinance with current best practices. It has improved graphics and simplified provisions that make it easier to use by property owners and easier to administer from the staff side as well. Committeemember John Voorde asked, At the same time, are you looking at the time regulated off-street parking? EXCELLENCE I ACCOUNTABILITY I INNOVATION I INCLUSION I EMPOWERMENT 455County-City Building 227W.Jefferson Bvld South Bend,Indiana 46601p574.235.9221If574.235.9173 TTD574.235.5567jwww.southbendin.gov 2