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South Bend Redevelopment Commission Regular Me ting - March 20, 1981 5. PUBLICIHEARING (continued) Mr. Gibney continued by saying that Southold is currently working with the City Administration, talking to them about designs and revolving loan programs. We hope that in the future we can have a direct involvement with the commun ty in that area, an involvement that would repre- sent t e people that are living there and new people that would ttempt to come there. Mr. Ni tz asked Mr. Gibney to mention his discussion with the Hi toric Preservation Commission concerning house moves. Mr. Gi ney said that it is still a little sketchy at this time. Southold moves homes and has found that those houses that some people call substandard, and possibly are, a e salvageable with some .effort and a fair amount of exp rtise. These houses can be saved and can actually be new landmarks in neighborhoods. Southold would like to see more homes moved that what Redevelopment has planneJ on by people who may be attracted to the area. The pr ject is not as difficult as it looks. It takes a lot of man hours, but it can be done and usually the houses arrive in the same condition they were in before the mo e. Mr. Mc ahon said that we feel that because of the scope of the program proposed in Monroe- Sample, that we would like very much to outline a program where we can estab- lish s mething along the line and the character of what you just heard, right in the neighborhood, to implement city programs and to provide assistance in interpreting and going through the relocation process. We would hope that we could do that within the next month, and certainly very key in that regard, we would ask that the neighbor- hood, either through Mrs. Hernandez or other representa- tives, participate in that process. We are setting up something that we hope to be tailor -made specifically for the Monroe- Sample area, and we feel that the in- volveiTent of the neighborhood group is essential in that their involvement to make certain that we are addressing their particular concerns and have in place over there on a ull -time basis the type of vehicle that they need in or er to make this happen as smoothly as possible. Mr. Nigel Hawman introduced himself as a resident in the area that is staying and said that something of particular concern to him, as long as we are redesigning the area, is that there is an awful lot of through- traffic on South 15