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South Bend evelopment Commission Regular Mee ing - September 14, 1990 6. NEW BUSS (Cont.) a. conninuea... Riclard Sheehan: I live on Mayflower Road - north of the airport. I'm Presc ident of the German Township Neichborhood Association. Over the last y or so we've invited a number of pec4de to our meetings, including Co=tissioner Larrison, Mr. Johnson, the May Or and Mr. Hunt. In particular, we had Mayor Kernan and Mr. Hunt at our last meeting to talk about the Airport 2010 pro ect. No one in the area had been notified of the project until it came out in rhe newspaper - that was not appmpriate. I felt it was inappropriate the and I don't feel its appropriate that between the meeting and now there's been no additional input, no additional information. We were told by the Mayor and by Mr. Hunt that there would be nei rhood representatives on whatever they would be working on. I'm not asking to make any decisions but I think all of us I iere are asking to have input into those decisions. The fact is that the onl time we have that opportunity is in an apen meeting like this. I don't think that speaks very highly about the way the p has been conducted to this point. I would hope that would change imtnEdiately. It's simply inappropriate for a democratically elected govenm -ent. I 't believe that it has gone on this way I ar i troubled by the notion of you saying that you let market economies work. You let the market take care of who gets paid how much or how its developed or whatever and that you only get involved when "it's not happening ". The question I would turn around and ask you is, "why isn't it hanening here or why doesn't it happen in the Studebaker Corridor." Presumably you've owned or have pieces or options or wha ever on most of the property in the Studebaker Corridor. The development hasn't happened there. You have to ask -12-