04-25-05 Council Meeting Minutes

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REGULAR MEETING APRIL 25,2005 Brubaker further noted his concerns with a project of this size that there might be ground water contamination. Councilmember Dieter made a motion to adopt this Resolution. Councilmember Puzzello seconded the motion which carried by a roll call vote of nine (9) ayes. th COUNCIL DISTRICT UPDATES 4 DISTRICT COUNCILMEMBER ANN PUZZELLO th Councilmember Puzzello informed the Council that the 4 District is very busy with work still in the planning stages, as well as projects happening now or this summer. The Northeast Neighborhood has many projects coming up, especially since it was designated a redevelopment area this past year. The NNRO (Northeast Neighborhood Revitalization Area) in partnership with the City, has begun buying homes in the Burns, Duey, Georgiana triangle area off highway 23 are all being bought, to be demolished so that new upgraded homes can be built. The NNRO has been busy during the past several years building and renovating homes in the Northeast neighborhood. Notre Dame has plans to finish demolishing Logan Center when the New building is finished on Jefferson Blvd., where the Osteopathic Hospital used to be. Commercial projects are being planned for that area off Eddy and Napoleon Streets. Townshouses are planned for the corridor from Napoleon to highway 23 on Eddy. The changes in what has been referred to as the 5 corners are still several years off, but they are so extensive that the maps showing the intersection changing from 3 streets to 2 have been updated several times. INDOT will develop the new improved highway 23 and Eddy Streets. Houses and businesses will have to be demolished to make the changes possible. Frederickson Park is finally a reality, after almost 20 years of city ownership. It is a beautiful mix of lovely wild flowers and plants and animals that live naturally in that environment. It is used by the schools and all who wish to study nature. Modern techniques are wonderful, taking this land from a dump area to a garden. LaSalle and Colfax with Eddy intersections will have upgrades on their street lights with the addition of turn left arrows which are much needed. Lots of accidents have happened here. The work will start soon. Intersections at Jefferson and McKinley at Ironwood will get new improved signals as well as improved approaches to the intersections on Ironwood. The signal changes are needed, but the citizens living near McKinley and Ironwood do not want the amount of street widening proposed by INDOT which would cut deeply into their lawns. This has led to a new neighborhood group and a proposed change of plans by the city to INDOT. Neighbors’ working together is a good thing. The St. Joseph Medical Center has, unfortunately, decided to leave South Bend but the move is several years in the future. They are installing a heliport at their present facility to handle the transporting of patients to other hospitals. The neighborhood accepted this