Special Exception - 508 & 512 W Colfax

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Area Board of Zoning Appeals — June 6, 2012 SOUTH BEND HERITAGE FOUNDATION, INC. The petition of South Bend Heritage Foundation, Inc. seeking a Special Exception to allow for a commercial parking lot, on property located at 508 & 512 W. Colfax Street, Portage Township. Zoned "MU ". MR. PAT LYNCH: With South Bend Heritage Foundation, 803 Lincolnway West, South Bend. We are here today to request a Special Exception for a commercial lot at the address that was mentioned. We're doing this project in conjunction with redevelopment of the Rushton Building which sits on the corner of west Washington and William. And we're very excited about that project and we'll make this lot available to the seniors who will be living at that project. MR. URBANSKI: Is there some parking right behind the building too, Pat, behind the Rushton Building? MR. LYNCH: That property immediately north of the Rushton does not belong to the Rushton it belongs to the next building north. The Rushton does not have access directly to the alley. MR. URBANSKI: Okay will the people have to walk all the way around to William Street to enter the building? MR. LYNCH: That is correct. MS. NAYDER: Just want to point out where our comments are. They're in the Special Exception, so there's 1.3 and then 15 so didn't want you to miss because we did make comments on petition number 14. We recommended favorably because it's going to help with the re -use of an existing building. MR. VELLEMAN: Will there be any improvement to the alley done by either the City or South Bend Heritage. It was a pretty rough alley when I drove down it. MR. LYNCH: It is rough, I agree. I'm with Toy Villa in Engineering right now. And we also have to get into that alley a little bit to bring power to the Rushton. So we do intend to improve at least from our parking lot to the east William Street, yeah. IN FAVOR MR. WILLIAM PERKINS: I live at 119 N. Taylor Street. I live right around the corner from the property in question. And I want to know how big is the parking lot going to be and what they plan on doing as far as landscaping and also how it's going,to affect the apartment building directly next to it which is now unoccupied and being renovated. Before it had a reputation for being undesirable, yeah will it be? And I really want to see the Rushton, I'd love to see the Rushton rehabilitated, I really would. I also wonder how many people are going to make the actual stroll from the parking lot in the dead of winter over to the Rushton. That's kind of a little hike there. I wonder if there is some other way they could get a parking lot there. So I just basically have questions about the whole thing. MR. PERKINS WAS SHOWN A SITE PLAN OF THE PARKING LOT AT THIS TIME 28