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South Ben Redevelopment Commission Regular M eting - November 7, 1980 6. NEW b. M #. J. Claeys continues... y taxes at all to help support the City, the Commissions, and all the other things, and we think we have a p rfect right to come up here and ask for some tax abatement on this even though the time element doesn't correspond with maybe some of the rules and regulations. Another thing, in talking with the Mayor the other day, he was very, very pleased because our building is right in the area of where you are trying to do something to develop the Studebaker property. We are the entrance to it, you might say. If you went the place to look junky like it was looking, the three or four houses that w re up there were absolutely a disgrace tc the City, you wonder if sometimes does the City really want to progress. We feel t at we are doing something to help the City make it look better, and we are particularly ii an area that you are trying to develop. Y u can see our place from here and you can s e the Studebaker Complex from here, and it does need some help. Tax abatement is ore of the things that we are certainly entitled to come up here and ask for, w ether you grant it or not, that depends upon you. . Nimtz: Thank you, Jerry. Don Claeys: I would like to add that are not asking for permanent tax abate - .t, only for a small period of time. NIT. Gregg Claeys: I think one of the iffportant things that I would like to re- iterate is the fact that it's a temporary tax abatement and the important thing is that we want to stay in the City and be a p rt of the City and grow with the City and t at is the main reason we are up here re- q esting abatement. Nimtz: I don't know what the legal ation is here, but let me say this to Commission. 12