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REGULAR MEETING JUNE 13, 2011 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />just because they fall into some specific category. He stated that Mr. Bumbaca proposes <br />to do is join the homes as was presented at the Board of Zoning Appeals and there were <br />blueprints for that construction showing the setbacks for the properties, a picture of what <br />the properties were going to look like. Mr. Agostino stated that this matter has been <br />continued a couple of times so that Mr. Bumbaca could gather that further information to <br />show what the property is going to be and has shown that information at the prior <br />committee meeting levels. The neighborhood is located off of South Bend Avenue, and <br />there are two houses on that street that are Chicago Style Townhouses and Garden <br />stnd <br />Apartments, 1 Floor and 2 Floor and Three Story monstrosities that don’t fit with the <br />neighborhood aesthetically. Mr. Agostino reiterated the two on South Bend Avenue and <br />one on the corner of South Bend Avenue and St. Peter St., and one on Sunnyside. He <br />stated that if the Council would permit they would like to file this information with the <br />City Clerk and pass around to Council for their review. He stated that the information <br />that is being presented is in the same location in the near northeast neighborhood. He <br />asked the Council for their favorable support. Mr. Agostino stated that the area is rental <br />properties and reiterated that Mr. Bumbaca is a private investor using private dollars to <br />beautify this area. <br /> <br />A Public Hearing was held on the Resolution at this time. <br /> <br />There was no one present wishing to speak in favor. <br /> <br />The following individuals spoke in opposition to the bill. <br /> <br />Noreen Dean-Moran, 716 W. Colfax, South Bend, Indiana, spoke in opposition to this <br />bill. She advised that she does not live in that neighborhood, but lives in a neighborhood <br />which suffers the same kinds of attempts by landlords to increase their profit. She stated <br />that she doesn’t have anything against a profit, but against the fact that most of the people <br />are landlords in an area in which they don’t mind it. This is the reason she is against it. <br />The neighborhood only becomes a someplace for them to make a profit. The three <br />monstrosities that Mr. Agostino mentioned earlier, she is in complete agreement that they <br />are just that. They got to be there only because the city did not realize that that area <br />around South Bend Avenue had been from the 1930’s commercial. So the building of <br />those monstrosities which was against every height and width and so forth was seen first <br />as a possible improvement, that is not the case those houses look ridiculous and that is <br />not a reason that they look ridiculous that Mr. Bumbaca should be able to put two <br />separate houses together. She stated that she does not know where the extra square <br />footage comes from, it may be configured differently, but if you put two 1,500 square <br />foot house together it still only comes out to 3,000 square feet. She stated that she likes <br />students very much, she teaches them. They are presently residence, they are not citizens <br />it would not happen in their own neighborhoods where they come from and they can live <br />like the rest of the people they do not have to live like they used to with Mr. Kramer’s <br />houses of 10, 12, 15 people living there, so that the landlord can make close to $10,000 a <br />month. She reiterated again that she does not live in this area, she lives on the near west <br />side but they have the same kind of thing going on. She stated that the near north east <br />cooperative has done a lot of work and this is exactly in the opposite direction. <br /> <br />Mr. Bill Stentz, 1020 E. Colfax, South Bend, Indiana, spoke in opposition to this bill. <br />Mr. Stenz stated that he is the President of the North East Neighborhood Council <br />(NENC), and on the Board of the Northeast Neighborhood Revitalization Organization <br />(NNRO). He stated that this is just a bad idea. He stated that when this proposal was <br />presented at the Area Plan Commission, both the NNRO and the NENC were very much <br />against it. Mr. Stentz reiterated that this was given a unanimous unfavorable <br />recommendation. He stated that these two homes on Mr. Bumbaca’s website for rentals <br />for student housing both indicate that they are five bedroom houses for rent to students. <br />So now there would be 10 bedrooms for 10 students on lots on 33 or 34 feet wide and <br />possibly 10 cars. He stated that he wasn’t sure what the plan was for the second floor of <br />these homes and could possibly get another one or two bedrooms upstairs. He stated that <br />is just too many people, too dense and a bad idea. <br /> <br /> 34 <br /> <br />
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