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South Bend qedevelopment Commission Regular Mee ing — December 4, 1981 5. COMMUNICATIONS (continued) Mr. Nim z: The Chair will call a halt to this. We've heard.. you know. Does anybody else want to say some- thing? Unknown Yes. Mr. Nim z: Oh, excuse me, I didn't know you were here. Mr. McG nn: I'd just like to make reference back to the letters which I submitted and Councilman Voorde submit- ted. T ere are five names on those two letters of Mem- bers of the Common Council and attempting to secure sig- natures we had trouble coordinating work schedules, otherwi e we would have had more than that. I would say at 1his point that the only person of the nine,: the only me ber of the Council out of 9 that is definitely opposed to this is Mr. Taylor, so I would say that either informal or impassive support, eight members of the Cou cil are in support of a... Mr. Nilz: Well, of course Mr. Serge told me the other night t{�at he was not for it, I don't know. Mr. McG4nn: Well, he told me the opposite, so. Mr. Nim z: Mr. Voorde, Councilman Voorde, excuse me, I didn' know you were here Mr. President. Mr. Voorde: It's all right. Mr. Ni:mtz and Members of the Comnission, the letter I wrote obviously asked the Commission to take another look to perhaps with a dif- ferent ferspective based on some factors that may have been em hasized or brought to light at the meeting last Monday. One of the questions I asked in the letter was would T ANSPO lose their money if a 90 -day or some other term of time, if some delay were granted, and I might say too that its never been my intent that TRANSPO, or my desi e, that TRANSPO shouldn't be downtown approxi- mate to the Century Mall. I just feel that they could be adequately served in any number of locations in this general area and, therefore, question whether or not they sp cifically need the Odd Fellows site to proceed. And the other thing is, I have a newspaper article that I was j st recently, that was printed in the Chicago Tribune December 2, written by the Real Estate Editor there, and it seems to support the development of down- town office buildings as condominiums, and that was one of the uggestions that was made at last Monday night's 19