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SOUTH END REDEVELOPMENT COMMISSION SPECIA MEETING: July 10, 1975 MR Page 7. With no further discussion or comment from the members of the Commission, the motion was unanimously carried by all Commissioners. Letter from International Constructors Compa 1975: Mr. Brownell advised we received this national Constructors Company, and is in the packet. Asked if it is Mr. Medlock's desire read, Mr. Medlock said he had no objections. read in its entirety and is on file. 1y, dated July 7, letter from Inter - Commissioners the letter be The letter was President Nimtz asked Mr. Medlock if wants to comment further regarding the letter and the attachments. Mr. Medlock advised, "Only to say that we are sincerely interested in seeing this developed and in seeing this developed in the best way possible, and we feel that we have made every effort to make our plans public knowledge, and, in fact, to communicate to the other bidder, that we would be willing for them to join our group and that we would be glad to meet with them to negotiate the development of the office portion as a part of a'single bid, if that can be done without collusion or any of the things that would throw out a future bid, but we are, as we have gotten further into this, more and more convinced that the best development of Block 6 is going to be something that will involve some land use change, and we might as well make the necessary land use changes to do what is best for the community." President Nimtz requested an explanation be given on the land use, and Mr. Butler, Commission Legal Counsel, advised, "Basically, the land use is a requirement of HUD regulations. They require that the Local Public Agency declare land -use conditions/restric- tions in any urban renewal area, and those be the land use de- signated at the time the property is put up for bid. If, from that point on, a contract is successful, or an acceptable contract is openly signed, then the land use for that particular property which is subject of bid is locked in for a period of at least 30 years from December of 1969 until December, 1999. It can be extended. We are talking about a 30 -year period." In re- affirming the statement, President Nimtz stated, "So once a decision is made on a particular land use, that is it for 30 years." Mr. Butler stated that is correct. The Chair requested response from the Commissioners: Mr. Wiggins said, "I think that, without question, we have had to rely upon the specialists in the field, because this is what HUD requires largely. I think to a degree, in all fairness to the Commission, since we are not all experts in all of these things, we have to rely to some degree upon their judgment. I don't know if anybody's got a crystal ball that is clear and really forecasts the future, so there is an element of possibly being wrong, or wrong in varing degrees, or right in varying