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i <br />In addition to the educational facilities, the city has a significant investment in <br />parks and open space within the Sample -Ewing Development Area. The parks and <br />open space areas include Rum Village Park, Walker Field, the Studebaker Golf <br />Course, Studebaker Park, Ravina Park and Dean Johnson Park. The School <br />Corporation and city government have attempted to use park and other open space to <br />enable the School Corporation to meet size standards for both Riley High School and <br />Studebaker Elementary School. <br />I. ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS <br />The Sample -Ewing Development Area includes several potentially significant <br />environmental conditions that add to the planning and development challenges and <br />opportunities. The Bowman Creek drainage basin, unsuitable soil conditions, and <br />possible environmental problems associated with more than one hundred years of <br />manufacturing are the main environmental issues to be addressed. <br />The Bowman Creek drainage basin, that begins southwest of the project area <br />and runs through the Southeast Neighborhood to the St. Joseph River, received <br />extensive public works improvements within the Southeast neighborhood area. <br />Approximately $220,000 was spent in 1992 to alleviate chronic flooding problems. <br />l The far western edge of the Sample -Ewing Development Area includes <br />substantial areas of poor soil conditions for urban development. These soil conditions <br />run throughout the Rum Village Industrial Park into the band of industrial and <br />warehouse distribution uses in the sub -area between Sample and Indiana Avenue. <br />Several large vacant parcels of land are still in the Sample- Indiana Corridor and have <br />been on the market for some time. <br />The potential environmental issues of ground and water contamination must b-- <br />addressed throughout the total non - residential portion of the Sample -Ewing <br />Development Area from the Studebaker Corridor through the Sample- Indiana <br />Industrial District to the Rum Village Industrial Park. Numerous scrap and salvage <br />yards dot the Sample -Ewing Development Area from the Michigan -Main Street <br />business district through the Studebaker Corridor to the Sample- Indiana industrial <br />corridor. As the major industrial users disappeared throughout the Sample -Ewing <br />s <br />Development Area, marginal land uses and trucking operations have filled much of <br />the area zoned for heavy industrial uses. <br />The large, obsolete industrial buildings are also potential environmental <br />concerns. Asbestos, PCBs in transformers and waste storage facilities on site are all <br />potential environmental issues that must be addressed whether the development option <br />is clearance or adaptive re -use. <br />-16- <br />,ti, <br />5/21/93 <br />