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CITY OF SOUTH BEND I OFFICE OF THE CLERK Committee Chair Davis followed up, So,I mean,I'm going to try to consider those kinds of things. We could go into a lower kind of a situation and then if a big industry comes, then the neighbors and community can come and discuss if they want that. Right now, if we go ahead and vote on this,that discussion doesn't take place. It is all done. Councilmember Teshka asked, So at this point, we can't separate the two (2), correct? • Mr. Palmer replied, Correct. Committee Chair Davis stated, Unless you vote it down. Councilmember Teshka stated, But that would mess up the timeline. And that is what my initial questions were getting at. If we bring this in as GI, we kind of skirt all the discussion around a specific proposal that comes later on down the road. To Mr. Divita's point, if we would have just allowed it to be annexed in and it was defaulted to Single-Family or even Commercial, we would have at least had another chance to come at this when a proposed project comes around. Committee Chair Davis stated, That is my concern. Councilmember Teshka stated, Say we vote this down tonight. That would push this past that deadline? Mr. Palmer replied, If you push it out beyond the deadline, it cannot become effective until 2020. Committee Chair Davis interjected,That is what I was trying to get at. Is there any way this project can still be annexed and we make an amendment to what was done in Area Plan?Do we have that kind of power? If we make any changes, does the whole thing get on out? My thought on it, and I was talking to some people, I haven't talked to everybody but I've talked to some of them about it, the annexation makes sense to me, ok? I think everybody in this whole room, that is not where we are, that's not even a disagreement. But what I've heard from the different farmers and from people who are around there,it is the type of zoning we are planning to give it. That is the concern. When it came back, and I asked this question to Area Plan, is there any particular use for it? They answered no, nothing in the future. To me, it is very concerning for me to leave something that wide open that I voted on in that district that we are trying to build up, and then, boom. Here we are with a second (2nd) car shredder or another something like that and that is not cool. So the question comes in, can we get this through so we can deal with the Census issue and then come back and deal with that? Can we amend that in our power? That's why I said we may need to research that part of it and come back. You see why I wanted to get some time with the attorneys? I really want this thing to annex in but what the use of it will be is the concern that I have. I think the community on the West Side and even the whole community needs to able to weigh in on the type of business that will be utilized there. When people just see a farming thing, they might not even know that and they realize the issue was already down. Prime example,when we did zoning, and most of this Committee wasn't here, for the Oliver Apartments, it was zoned for a grandparent home. That did not materialize and all of the sudden the Oliver Apartments came in there and the neighbors did not know about it but they didn't have to come back because it already had that zone and we found out about it in the news. They asked why it didn't come before the zoning board of the City Council and that was because it was already zoned that way.And so,therefore,a homeless EXCELLENCE I ACCOUNTABILITY I INNOVATION I INCLUSION I EMPOWERMENT 455 County-City Building 1227 W.Jefferson Bvld l South Bend,Indiana 466011 p574.235.92211 f 574.235.91731 TTD 574.235.5567 k www.southbendin.gov 12