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®CITY OF SOUTH BEND OFFICE OF THE CLERK the most efficient way as possible. We had been able to do this in a way that is not wasteful of anyone's time. We prepared a response to some of Councilmember Broden's concerns in our PowerPoint, if you could put that up on the screen (referencing a slide in a presentation which is available in the City Clerk's Office). We have a group of individuals here to answer other questions, too. Councilmember Broden interjected, And thank you for the changes, I'm sorry, I should have mentioned that. Tim Corcoran, Director of Planning for the Department of Community Investment with offices located on the 14th floor of the County-City Building, stated, Apologies for being a few minutes late to the start of this. I didn't hear all the questions, but I heard the timing of the meeting was a big issue. This particular adjustment and the development plan updates don't talk to those because that is not what this is about. This is just about changing a boundary and making sure the development plans are in line with the City's Comprehensive Plan and that we've gone through a voluntary public process to help inform the people and residents that will be included in the new adjusted areas as well as on the acquisition list. He continued,To that, if you were to choose, for instance,not to take any action tonight, or to vote this down, effectively nothing would change. So, I think it is important for me and for all of us to move forward in a positive direction tonight with these adjustments. We are also on a very tight timeline. Milestones hit (referencing a slide in the presentation), we delayed last week because of some of the text amendments that Councilmember Broden asked for. It is my opinion that we cannot delay tonight. Otherwise, it will restart the three (3)month process again and I don't think it would actually accomplish the things you guys are asking for. That is something we need to talk about more internally. There was another comment about members of the public not being able to speak during a Redevelopment Commission meeting. Councilmember Broden interjected, By law, they don't have to be given the opportunity to speak. Dave Relos, Property Development Manager for the Department of Community Investment with offices located on the 14th floor of the County-City Building, stated, By law, we don't have to, right. But, if someone has comments,we listen and if there are people there whose project it is, we let them speak. They are always asked to inform the Commission of the project. Oftentimes, though, we allow for public comment. Committeemember Dr. Davis interjected, I respect what Mr. Corcoran has said in a sense, but at the same time, I will say this. That would almost throw everything we said just out the window. I think sometimes the reason why we, as a Council, have felt the need to say things like this is because of those same kinds of responses when we've had that. It's like, well, we have to move on, we have to move on, and we don't see that. I encourage my colleagues to think really closely about approving such action tonight without having some amendments and some of those other things as a part of this. Because, if we don't show any amendments to these kinds of issues, they will just continue to do this, and it will be a practice for the years to come. Mr. Corcoran replied, To be fair, we have been talking to Council since last October about this. To wait until this point seems to me to be maybe not the best way to go about it. We've had a lot EXCELLENCE ACCOUNTABILITY INNOVATION INCLUSION EMPOWERMENT 455 County-City Building 227W.Jefferson Bvld South Bend,Indiana 46601 p 574.235.9221 f 574.235.9173 TTD574.235.5567 www.southbendin.gov 4