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South Bend Redevelopment Comission Reshcedule4 Regular Meeting - April 13, 1989 6. NEW BUSINESS (Cont.) b. Coritinued... presenting tonight is the result of those of orts. Many of the people here tonight ha a worked very hard aver the last twelve to eighteen months to work on this Plz n and we are very proud of it because th Plan is not just a demolition plan or a I ind of removal plan. It is a plan is been developed by the residents ard business people that operate in the west side of South Bend and it adcresses many of their concerns. I think it is a very do -able plan and is one that is workable. At this time I'd lile to bring Ms. Charlotte Pfeifer. Che lotte Pfeifer: Mr. Nimtz, Commission CHARIOTI'E PFEIFER I, too, want to thank you for hezring our Plan tonight. We were very excited about this Plan because it is the re-cult of two years of hard work. I just vez y briefly want to go over some of the prc cess. For the last two years we have mace sure that the neighborhood reE idents, those who had businesses in the neighborhood, those that had just an interest in the neighborhood, people who used to live in the neighborhood, and people who may want to contribute monetarily to the neighborhood were included in this process. We've met for the last two years, but in the last six months we have met twice a month as a In addition to that, once a month we had a general meeting and we made again, that everyone knew about the meetings by having newsletters and phone messages and doing everything possible to include all interested parties in this We me iad a task force, originally, about it months ago. And that, again, Luded people who lived in the #hborhood, people who have businesses he neighborhood, bankers, people from NAACP, the ministers that were