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CITY OF SOUTH BEND OFFICE OF THE CLERK Committeemember Voorde asked, What is EIFS? Mr. Divita replied, That stands for Exterior Insulated Finishing System. He continued, So between now and when this comes back to Council, we are happy to go into further detail if you want. I could answer questions now if you would like. Councilmember Scott asked, So, when are these proposed changes coming to us? Mr. Divita replied, They are going to the Area Plan Commission for their June meeting, they will come back to you in your second(2nd) meeting of June. Mr. Corcoran stated, We would need a sponsoring Council Member for both of these two (2). Committee Chair Dr. Davis stated, Councilmember Voorde will be one (1) and Councilmember Broden will be the other. Larry Magliozzi, Director of the Department of Infrastructure, Planning & Growth with offices located on the 11th floor of the County-City Building, stated, I would like to remind the Council that the Area Plan Commission recommends the whole document. If you change something at Council, it has to go back to the APC. Councilmember White stated, So,we should give our feedback prior to the Area Plan Commission meeting. Ms. Smith stated, In case you missed the introduction yesterday, I have joined the Department of Community Investment. My task, for the rest of the year, is to help with the transition for the adoption of the new Zoning Ordinance, as well as the formation of the South Bend Plan Commission Board of Zoning Appeals. So, what I want to touch on tonight is the timeline of what this will look like (referencing a slide in the presentation). The reformatting of the Zoning Ordinance, we are well underway. We've been working with a consultant and we hope to have a final working draft by early to mid-June. That will allow us to start reaching out to developers, getting interdepartmental reviews from Fire and Engineering, and start getting public engagement where we can take a document out to the public. From what I've heard, the 2005 adoption was a much larger overhaul of the Zoning Ordinance,there were a lot of Committee meetings,but I don't know how much outreach there was to take this out to the public. We want to make sure this isn't a surprise to anybody. We're not making major changes, but we are updating things and we want people to feel they have the opportunity to comment and be included. We have an engagement strategy I will talk a little bit about. That would allow us to get all the comments back to the consultant by the end of July to make any tweaks to the draft that we need to do so we can introduce it for the September Plan Commission meeting, hopefully, and get it in front of the Council in October. Part of why we are going on that timeframe is even though we anticipate it not going into effect until January Pt is we want to allow time for us to formulate the Plan Commission and do training.We want to train the Building Department on what the new standards are so,come January 1St, we are ready to go, and we don't have a whole lot of problems with that transition. So, we are trying to make sure we do everything we can to make sure the transition is as smooth as possible with all the departmental agencies. EXCELLENCE ACCOUNTABILITY INNOVATION INCLUSION EMPOWERMENT 455 County-City Building 227W.Jefferson Bvld South Bend,Indiana 46601 p 574.235.9221 f574.235.9173 TTD 574.235.5567 twwv.southbendin.gov 8