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South Bend Redevelopment Commission <br /> Regular Meeting—September 13, 2012 <br /> Regards, <br /> Jim Goepfrich <br /> 574-850-6659 <br /> 4036 S. Fellows St. (letter) <br /> 9/12/12 <br /> Dear Mayor Buttigieg: <br /> I am distressed to see the transportation plan <br /> for South Bend that includes the widening to <br /> four lanes of Fellows Street from Ireland <br /> Road and turning into a four lane Chippewa <br /> Street to Michigan. This is a wrongheaded <br /> idea. <br /> So far the concern has been for the over forty <br /> families affected by this plan, but the truth is <br /> you should be concerned for the whole city <br /> which will be deeply affected in a very <br /> negative way. This is the absolute wrong <br /> thing to do. <br /> Such a plan is not needed. Transportation <br /> planners like to move people from place to <br /> place without regard for neighborhoods or <br /> the people who live in them. I remember a <br /> plan in the 70's to build freeways through <br /> South Bend that would have decimated <br /> several neighborhoods, including (if you can <br /> imagine it) East Jefferson Boulevard. <br /> Fortunately, the people of power had the <br /> good sense to stop it. <br /> Now you must stop this wrongheaded idea <br /> for the people without power. When I drive <br /> through the Fellows/Chippewa neighborhood <br /> I see tidy homes (for the most part)in a <br /> viable working class neighborhood. For a <br /> city so concerned with its neighborhoods, it <br /> is unthinkable that you would destroy this <br /> one. The curve in Fellows gives this street <br /> 37 <br />