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G <br />South Bend Redevelopment Commission <br />Regular Meeting —June 6, 2003 <br />6. NEW BUSINESS <br />A. Public Hearing <br />(1) continued.... <br />Mr. Hunt opened the Public Hearing for <br />whoever wished to speak. <br />MR. MASTERS: Mr. Hunt, members of the <br />Commission, I'm James A. Masters. I'm <br />here on behalf of Emmett McNease who is <br />the trustee and owner of the properties <br />owned by the Emmett McNease Revocable <br />Living Trust. This is Mr. McNease. <br />The properties you are seeking to acquire, <br />put on your acquisition list, are the parking <br />lots adjacent to Mr. McNease's building. <br />You are only acquiring his parking lots and <br />not his building itself. If I can show you the <br />site plan on the aerial photograph of the area, <br />this is the building which houses the Witmer <br />McNease Music Store. (Mr. Masters <br />indicated a building located at the <br />intersection of Monroe Street and Michigan <br />Street.) Mr. McNease has been at that <br />location since 1968. It's on Michigan Street <br />at Monroe. These are the parking lots you're <br />seeking to acquire. (Mr. Masters indicated <br />the two (2) subject properties.) You're only <br />asking to take his parking lots, not his <br />building. The building itself houses Mr. <br />McNease's store, it houses the Newsstand, it <br />houses seventeen (17) other tenants. There <br />are at any given time ten (10) to fifteen (15) <br />monthly parkers that rent space on the <br />parking lots. If you take away his parking <br />you substantially damage the remainder of <br />the property, which is the building. And you <br />impair all of the businesses operating in that <br />8 <br />PUBLIC HEARING oN RESOLUTION NO. 1973 <br />