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South Bend Redevelopment Commission <br />Rescheduled Regular Meeting -August 25, 2006 <br />6. NEW BUSINESS (CONT.) <br />A. Public Hearing <br />() continued... <br />the bus. The bus would only go out to <br />Aucilla Plastics. They had to walk a mile to <br />get to that project. The State of Illinois just <br />passed a law recently, in June, that any <br />development projects have to have <br />transportation plans associated with them <br />before being approved. And, I would like to <br />ask that before this project be approved that a <br />transportation plan be incorporated as part of <br />it, and possibly even a hub. Right now, <br />Transpo has to take an express bus from <br />downtown, does a loop around Blackthorn. If <br />a hub were placed maybe at LaSalle Square, <br />using TIF dollars from this project, maybe <br />that money would help the transportation. I <br />am not a transportation expert; I am just <br />throwing that out there as a possibility. I just <br />want to make that point about transportation <br />and the other thing I just made about TIF <br />being extended south just like they have done <br />in Mishawaka. Mishawaka has now....they <br />got out ahead of us on the mall, and they also <br />got out ahead of us on the TIF, so they have <br />taken that TIF from the peripheral and <br />brought it down into the inner city and <br />brought some really nice statues down there, <br />a nice park, made it attractive. Maybe the <br />same sculptor could build some of those kind <br />of sculptures out in LaSalle Square and make <br />it attractive. So those are my two points. <br />Ms. Hughes indicated she wanted to speak. <br />Mr. King told Mrs. Hughes that we could <br />only allow each person to speak once. She <br />said she had forgotten to say one sentence <br />and perhaps someone else could say it for <br />27 <br />