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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 />received in the office of the Redevelopment <br />Commission on 8/24/06 as follows: <br />1l~arcia I. Jones, President <br />South Bend Redevelopment Commission <br />227 W. Jefferson, Suite 1200 <br />South Bend, IN 46601 <br />1l~adarne President, <br />I am writing to you and your fellow <br />Commissioners regarding your August 25 <br />hearing on expanding the Airport <br />(Blackthorn) Tax Incremental Finance (TIF) <br />District to include areas in the newly <br />annexed Portage Prairie development. I am <br />enclosing petitions with signatuNes opposed <br />to this expansion at this time. <br />We understand the need for South Bend to <br />grow. We also have seen the deterioration of <br />our inner city neighborhoods. As members <br />of the REdevelopment Commission we <br />suggest you honor your mission to foster <br />growth and revitalization of all areas of the <br />city, new and old. One way to accomplish <br />this would be to not only extend the Airport <br />TIF boundaries northward to include the <br />Portage Prairie area, but to also extend them <br />southward to include LaSalle Square and <br />adjacent areas along Lincoln Way West. <br />We urge you to table this vote until you and <br />your cornrnissioners meet with the <br />stakeholders in and around the LaSalle <br />Square area to determine where the <br />39 <br />