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South Bend edevelopment Commission Regular Meeting - November 9, 1990 6. NEW BUSVESS (Cont.) e. conunuea... f purposes and have looked at ways to evelop it. She believes they have, ov a period of years, solicited certain of proposals. This is really a long term project. The Aiiq)ort Authority came to us and mentioned that they were working with someone interested in doing a project in the area and we started getting involved in the planning in the area. Our plarmirxj area is about 3700 acres. It is larcrer than the land that is currently in the city and it involves a master plan which is nearing completion. We hired Cole Associates to put the master plan tog Ether but it involves a number of One is the airport development av the next 20 years. It also provides for industrial park development, business development and some form of off ce park development within the city tha is of a suburban nature. It also p ides for the development of a golf that is one small component of the pro ect as a whole. The planning that we are doing is for the entire area over a lorq period of time. There is really no one instigator of a project. It's more Of EL long range look at what is going to be lappening in that area. Since we declared this an economic development ared we have had meetings with five or six developers, not all for identical locztions. We are looking at the pr4t ect area as a whole. How will we p ide the public improvements and allow the land to open up to the traffic that can then connect into the toll road and pr ide room for industrial and business Mrs. Pencil stated that the laws are not to Frotect anybody. No one owns their land to the extent that a private individual will come and say I like this grotW, I can see it being developed into -15-