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South Bend Redevelopment Commission <br />Regular Meeting - May 21, 1993 <br />6. NEW BUSINESS (Cont.) <br />a. continued... <br />MR. COLLIER: My name's Bruce Collier. <br />I live at 318 E. Haney, which is in the <br />Southeast Neighborhood. I have two <br />questions, neither of which have to do with <br />the Southeast Neighborhood. The fast one is <br />a more general question. That is, I hear the <br />term "unstable soils" or "muck soils ", <br />particularly out in the Rum Village Industrial <br />Area, and even in one of the more inner -city <br />areas. My question is, "Isn't the best use of <br />that muck land and those unstable soils as <br />agricultural land, to grow crops ?" We have a <br />trend across the country in which our <br />agricultural land, much of the best of it, is <br />disappearing at a very high rate. I don't <br />know if you are aware, but supposedly the <br />best agricultural land in the state of Michigan <br />sits, right now, underneath the City of <br />Detroit. And losing this land, how much of <br />the land out there is good agricultural land, <br />perhaps not the best tax use of it, but the best <br />use of the land is agricultural land? And I <br />have another question. <br />MRS. KOLATA: All I can tell you is that <br />that land has been zoned "Industrial" for <br />years and years and years. It is not <br />agriculturally zoned land. Most of it is zoned <br />"Heavy Industrial." Certainly the Rum <br />Village Industrial Park is zoned "E," which is <br />the heaviest zoning that you can have. Along <br />the Indiana - Sample Corridor I think it is <br />either "D" or "E, "which is, again, <br />industrially zoned. I'm not sure that it will <br />revert to agriculture, no matter what. <br />-34- <br />