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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: I guess my response to that <br />is that you said that this development in that <br />area was probably precluded, if not for public <br />dollars being involved, so that makes me <br />wonder whether it might revert to agricultural <br />land. <br />MRS. KOLATA: I think that's also unlikely <br />given the presence of the railroads, chopping <br />it up into large sectors that would probably <br />make farming a portion of it very difficult <br />because it's not like you have vast, open <br />fields going on and on. You do have a lot of <br />railroad going through there. So that's <br />already set that way. <br />MR. HUNT: That's a good question. I think <br />a couple of things, outside this area, have <br />happened in the community. I think the Area <br />Plan Commission, several years ago, <br />established a very aggressive policy on zoning <br />and protecting agricultural land. They are <br />working with that and doing a good job, <br />trying to force, in a positive sense, urban <br />development into urban areas. While we <br />would be giving up some agricultural land <br />(the muck soil is obviously good for <br />agriculture), this area is already served by <br />infrastructure, water, sewer and rail. I think <br />it would be more beneficial, in the long term, <br />for the community to try to get the urban <br />development, the industrial development, <br />closer in to where we already have related <br />development and infrastructure—as opposed <br />to having it hop - scotch out into the county <br />-35- <br />