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10-17-2007 City administration files hotel ordinance with Council
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PRACK <br /> l8fi5 <br /> Office of the Mayor <br /> NEWS RELEASE <br /> Wednesday, October 17, 2007 <br /> 3:00 PM <br /> City administration files hotel ordinance with Council <br /> Contact: Chuck Leone, City Attorney, 235-9241 <br /> A comprehensive ordinance governing residence hotels was filed today with the South <br /> Bend Common Council, culminating weeks of research by the city's legal staff as well as <br /> consultation within the administration, and with council members and hotel operators. <br /> The ordinance creates a three-tier classification system, based on police calls for service — <br /> an approach suggested in a study published by the U.S. Department of Justice. South <br /> Bend police have conducted a preliminary calls-for-service assessment of all local hotels <br /> and found: <br /> • Most South Bend hotels would fall in the Tier 1 category, which includes the most <br /> well-managed and trouble-free facilities. The rate of calls for service would be less <br /> than or equal to 0.35 calls for service per room per year. <br /> • One South Bend hotel would fall in the Tier 2 category, on which moderate <br /> regulations would be imposed. The rate of calls for service would be between 0.36 <br /> and 1.0 calls for service per room per year. <br /> • Two hotels, including the Wooden Indian, would fall in the most regulated, Tier 3 <br /> category. The rate of calls for service would exceed 1.0 calls for service per room per <br /> year. <br /> "We believe the proposed standards imposed on South Bend's hotel industry will reduce <br /> the problems caused by the few establishments generating most of the public safety <br /> personnel responses," said City Attorney Chuck Leone. "The intention of the ordinance is <br /> to impose minimum requirements upon well-managed, trouble-free hotels, and to require <br /> the problematic hotels to take action designed to reduce crime and violence on their <br /> premises." <br /> Comprehensive regulations represent one of the avenues the city is pursuing to bring <br /> about changes that would affect the Wooden Indian, 1631 Lincolnway East, the site April <br /> 24 of a fatal shooting of South Bend Police Corporal Nick Polizzotto. Tightened licensing <br />
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