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'Area Board of Zoning Appeals—October 5, 2011 <br /> 4' and to allow a sidewalk in the side yard setback; from on site parking to no on site parking; from 6,000 <br /> sq.ft. lot size to 2,550 sq.ft. lot size; from Type A landscaping to no additional perimeter landscaping; from <br /> the 25'rear yard setback to 15';PARCEL G. from the 60' frontage to 34.97' for single family use; from 50' <br /> frontage to 34.97'for multi family use; from the 6' side yard setback to 4' and 2' and to allow a sidewalk in <br /> the side yard setback; from on site parking to no on site parking; from 6,000 sq. ft. lot size to 2,550 sq. ft.; <br /> from the Type A landscaping to no additional perimeter landscaping; from the 25' rear yard setback to 15'; <br /> PARCEL H. from 60' frontage to 54.33' for single family use; from the 6' side yard setback to 5' and 2'and <br /> to allow a sidewalk in the side yard setback; from on site parking to no on site parking; from 6,000 sq.ft. lot <br /> size to 5,600 sq.ft.; from the Type A landscaping to no additional perimeter landscaping or parking lot <br /> landscape screening;PARCEL I. from 60' frontage to 30.50' for single family use; from 50' frontage to <br /> 30,50' for multi family use; from the 6' side yard setback to 4' and to allow a sidewalk in a side yard setback; <br /> from on site parking to no on site parking; from 6,000 sq. ft. lot size to 4,080 sq. ft.; from Type A <br /> landscaping to no additional perimeter landscaping or parking lot landscape screening; PARCEL J.• from 60' <br /> frontage to 35.92' for single family use; from 50' frontage to 35.92' for multi family use; from the 6' side yard <br /> setback to 4' and to allow a sidewalk and drive in the side yard setback; from on site parking to no on site <br /> parking; from 6,000 sq. ft. lot size to 4,750 sq. ft.; from Type A landscaping to no additional perimeter <br /> landscaping or parking lot landscape screening; and from the minimum 24'wide parking lot drive aisle to 14' <br /> on parcels A, B, H, I &J; all on properties located at 618, 622, 626, 636 Lincolnway East, 611, 613, 701 and <br /> vacant land east and adjacent to 701 South Street, and 514 and 518 Rush Street, Portage Township. Zoned <br /> "MM". <br /> ". <br /> MR. MIKE DANCH: Danch, Harper &Associates, 1643 Commerce Drive, South Bend, Indiana, <br /> representing the petitioner the City Redevelopment Department. Mainly what we're doing here is this is the <br /> neighborhood area that's bounded by Lincolnway East, South Street and Rush Street. These properties were <br /> acquired by the Redevelopment from the South Bend Housing Authority. Basically what the Redevelopment <br /> Authority would like to be able to do is to put these properties back up for sale for either single ownership, <br /> duplexes or the multi family classification. What we ran into, we had discussions with the Area Plan <br /> Commission staff and the Building Department, the houses that you see on our site plan are the existing <br /> ones. A couple of these houses right now are being used as single family. The other ones are being used as <br /> multi family. What happens is under the zoning for"MF1"you're not allowed to have a single family <br /> residence. So what we're trying to do is work with the City of South Bend to make these properties sellable <br /> and provide enough options for the city that if someone wants to buy these homes they would have the <br /> option to continue to use them as duplexes, the ones that are that way, or single family depending on how <br /> that worked out. When we went through the zoning ordinance I had to ask for Special Exceptions to be <br /> allowed to use the houses as single family under"MF1". That's not a permitted use under"MF1"unless you <br /> get the Special Exception approved. The other variances that were asking for are basically for the setbacks <br /> to recreate and reconfigure property so that I can go through the subdivision process through the plat <br /> committee to create legal lots of record for each of the houses. .What we ran into is that the houses are they <br /> way they have been separated previously, I'm going to assume that it wasn't done with surveys,that there <br /> were encroachments of buildings, walkways onto the adjacent properties, so the diagram that you see before <br /> you would be also the subdivision, that's what it would look like and we've submitted it to the Area Plan <br /> Commission for approval. I've tried to clean up all the problem areas that were adjacent to theses houses. <br /> And what we did is we went through the ordinances one by one to figure out if we had sidewalks that I <br /> 18 <br />