No. 0757 ratifying/confirming Res. No. 751, redeclaring the SBCDA to be blighted and amending the development plan

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v • 5. There are fifteen (15) residential structures. All of these structures (100 %) require cosmetic and /or structural repairs. 6. Over the last three years the number of environmental complaints has increased from twenty -two in 1982 to thirty -four in 1984. In 1982 the City of South Bend Department of Code Enforcement only had six clean -ups in the area. That increased to twenty -six in 1983 and thirty -one through the first ten months of 1984. 7. The East Bank Development Area was declared a redevelopment area in late 1980. In 1981 the area was rezoned from "D" Light Industrial to "A -3" Mixed Use Residential. In spite of the rezoning to a residential classification, residential growth has not taken place. In fact the total number of housing units has decreased from twenty -one (21) in 1980 to eighteen (18) in 1984. C. In the portion of the Area previously designated as the Monroe Sample Development Area: 1. Fourteen percent (14 %) of the land is currently vacant. (This does not include land used for streets and alleys.) 2. There are one hundred eighteen (118) residential structures. Twenty -two (22) of these structures (19 %) require major cosmetic and /or structural repairs. Eighty -four (84) structures (71 %) require minor cosmetic repairs. D. In the portion of the Area designated in Resolution No. 737 as Expansion Area No. 1: 1. Forty -two percent (42 %) of the land is currently vacant. (This does not include .land used for streets and alleys.) 2. Nearly eight percent (8 %) of the area is land with vacant buildings. 3. Of the seven (7) commercial or industrial buildings, two (2) are vacant (28 %). 4. Of the nine (9) residential structures, five (5) require major structural or cosmetic repairs (55 %) and four (4) require minor cosmetic repairs (45 %). E. In the portion of the Area designated in Resolution No. 737 as Expansion Area No. 2: 1. Twenty -three percent (23 %) of the land is currently vacant. (This does not include land used for streets and alleys.) 2. Of the eighteen (18) commercial or industrial buildings, four (4) are vacant and one (1) is underutilized. This means that twenty -eight percent (28 %) of the commercial or industrial buildings are vacant or underutilized. 3. Of the sixteen (16) residential structures, all of them (100 %) require major or minor cosmetic repairs. F. In the portion of the Area designated in Resolution No. 737 as Expansion Area No. 3: 1. Thirty percent (30 %) of the land is currently underutilized.