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Area Board of Zoning Appeals--Juhe 1, 2011 <br /> Special Exception and variances for just the one building was kind of the easiest or the least processes to go <br /> through to get to the final product. <br /> MR. PHIPPS: Christa in your comments did you say that there are other duplexes in the neighborhood? <br /> MS. NAYDER: There aren't other duplexes there, there is an apartment building a couple blocks to the east. <br /> MR. VELLEMAN: How long have you owned this property sir? <br /> MR. GIVENS: We owned it for about five years. We bought them all from this gentleman named Mr. <br /> Hughes. Me and my brothers have been working on them one at a time making our way because we got a <br /> package deal for eleven of them and we know we have to go this way down the street instead of'starting <br /> there so that's why we haven't got to it yet. <br /> MR. URBANSKI: It appears like you have been taking care of the outside of it. <br /> MR. GIVENS: Yes sir. We keep the grass cut. We get a notice or somebody throws some trash out there <br /> we go immediately and pick it up. <br /> IN FAVOR <br /> There was no one present to speak in favor of this petition. <br /> REMONSTRANCE <br /> MR, URBANSKI: We do have two letters, one is from Charlotte Pfeifer, who is speaking now and I'll read <br /> the other one when she is done. <br /> MS. CHARLOTTE PFEIFER: I reside at 1013 W. Washington Street. I'm about 3 houses down from this <br /> property. You have my letter before you? <br /> MR. URBANSKI: Yes, <br /> MR. PFEIFER: The thing I wanted to I guess emphasize in addition to what I have in the letter is I think you <br /> all know that the Near Northwest Neighborhood Organization is one of the oldest neighborhood' <br /> organizations in the City of South Bend. And we have a history of course of fighting for that neighborhood. <br /> Kind of restore it from drugs and other kinds of inappropriate behavior. We're trying to, we went through <br /> that whole neighborhood about 20 years ago because the zoning was all over the place. As you know it's <br /> and old residential, manufacturing, business district. And because of that if fell into disrespect and disrepair. <br /> There were businesses there. Some legal, some illegal. Properties there, some people took care of them <br /> some.people didn't. The neighborhood organization, the West Washington, Chapin Neighborhood <br /> Organization came together and we went through each one of those properties to try and restore to single <br /> family. There was a time when I moved into that neighborhood, I've lived in that neighborhood for 41 years. <br /> I've lived in that particular property on west Washington Street for 17 years. When I first moved there <br /> people said "are you crazy, why would you want to live on west Washington Street?" After those of us in <br /> 17 <br />