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SCITY OF SOUTH BEND I OFFICE OF THE CLERK opposing and supporting the rezoning as well as the petitions from New Testament Church which is the adjacent property owner and St. Augustine which is the Church across the street. I have conveyed to you via email the most up to date information on the environmental condition of the site and Marco can speak to that more, but it was remediated in 2006 by the South Bend Heritage Foundation as the manager of the remediation. Marco Mariani, Director of the South Bend Heritage Foundation with offices located at 803 Lincoln Way West in South Bend, IN stated, South Bend Heritage and the City of South Bend have provided you with the full packet of information in terms of background and it's overall development. I'll go into the full presentation tonight,but briefly I'll comment on the scope of the development with just some reminders in terms of what South Bend Heritage Foundation is proposing to develop on the site. So, as you can see we are proposing to develop a two (2) story twenty(20) to twenty-two (22) unit Permanent Supportive Housing Development for chronically homeless individuals. This would be roughly an eighteen thousand(18,000) square foot two story building with parking provided on the side of the building. We would provide security cameras, all emergency requirements needed. I won't get into all the screening residential information unless you'd like for me to, but I plan to do that during the full presentation tonight. This is a two (2) acre site. It certainly meets the requirements of a permanent supportive housing development in terms of the locational analysis and the walk score. Many of you have been provided with information that sites have been looked at around the City. Oliver Apartments was another site that went through a similar process of site selections, and that site was determined to be a good site for permanent supportive housing.This is the same situation here.We have certainly moved as quickly as we could once this site was put into play by the City of South Bend, we moved as quickly as we could to move forward with the rezoning and all of the public engagement simultaneously. There have been many public meetings that we've been a part of. Many of you Councilmembers have been at those meetings. There have been one (1) on one (1) meetings, there's been a lot of community engagement and certainly a lot of local media coverage on this site. We've given tours of Oliver Apartment as sort of proof of concept. We've answered questions about Oliver Apartments. Mr. Mariani continued by stating, In terms of the most recent information that has been shared in the media in regard to the environmental situation of the site, we've looked at that and our understanding of all of the information that was provided by the City at the time, and all of those reports were given to our consultants. Our consultants did not give any indication to us that the site was terminal in regard to its ability to provide residential development. Of course, as we've said in the media,just as we did at the Oliver Apartments, we would do a full update to the phase one (1). These are typical things you do when you redevelop a site. You do a full phase one (1), you update all of that information and then you do a full phase two (2). Phase one (1) can be completed in three (3) weeks. A full phase two (2) can be completed in forty-five (45) days potentially. All of those come at a cost, but those are typically things you do once you get site control as the developer. If there are any items to be identified, we would begin to identify those items with a Geo-Technical report. As we did at Oliver,we would begin to remediate any of those issues. At Oliver for example, we put in a vapor barrier and remediation system for any vapors that might be present on the site. We also removed some soils. There were some structures that were found from the old school. We brought in soils,we recompacted and we got proper clearance from all of the necessary agencies to begin our development work. So, that would be the same situation here. So, we're moving forward with the best information that we had at the time. Many of you have already seen that information publicly. Part of the process is we would do that full due EXCELLENCE I ACCOUNTABILITY I INNOVATION I INCLUSION I EMPOWERMENT 455 County-City Building 227W.Jefferson Bvld South Bend,Indiana 46601 p 574.235.9221 f 574.235.9173 TTD 574.235.5567 www.southbendin.gov 7