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South Bend Redevelopment Commission <br />Regular Meeting -May 19, 2006 <br />6. NEW BUSINESS (CONT.) <br />F. Airport Economic Development Area <br />continue ... <br />Mr. Peterson noted that the agreement with <br />Marathon is largely with the Redevelopment <br />Authority; however, it impacts development <br />on Blackthorn Golf Course, so Marathon has <br />asked that the Commission be a party to this <br />agreement. <br />The Redevelopment Authority owns <br />properties along the golf course which it <br />wishes to develop. One is Lot 3A which was <br />awarded to County Mayo for a hotel. The <br />others are lots 1 B and 1 C, north of the Blue <br />Heron. When the golf course was originally <br />developed, Marathon had a blanket easement <br />with the golf course fora 6-inch pipeline <br />which is no longer in use. They gave the <br />Commission a release making their easement <br />only 30 feet on either side of the pipeline. <br />The Commission then sold the property to <br />the Blue Heron. Bob Gonderman built the <br />Blue Heron in violation of their easement <br />agreement. That caused a series of events. <br />. When the Commission awarded the bid to <br />County Mayo to develop the hotel site, <br />Marathon threatened to enforce their rights in <br />the easement to prohibit development of that <br />site until we worked out the Blue Heron <br />issue. <br />This has kept development of the hotel site in <br />limbo for the past several years. This <br />Settlement Agreement ends all the disputes <br />with Marathon and paves the way to allow <br />the hotel development to move forward and <br />to allow Lot 1 B and 1 C to be developed <br />26 <br />