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++ South Bend Redevelopment Commission <br />Regular Meeting - May 21, 1993 <br />6. NEW BUSINESS (Cont.) <br />a. continued... <br />MS. OVERMEYER: My name is Judith <br />Overmeyer. I live on Locust Road. I <br />consider myself to be part of the Rum Village <br />area. I apologize for not being properly <br />prepared; however, I do drive through Rum <br />Village to Knollwood almost every day. I <br />work for a developer. And I see, absolutely, <br />the need, driving up State Road 23, and <br />across Sample, and up Eddy Street, and on <br />the north side of 23 out into the Grape Road <br />area, how pleasant it is. I particularly <br />appreciate the demolition of the Studebaker <br />Corridor buildings. It makes my drive a little <br />more pleasant. However, it seems like we're <br />just going about this in a somewhat <br />backwards way. Because I also realize the <br />amount of taxes that a new home can pay. I <br />think that Mayor Kernan himself said at the <br />South Gateway meeting, just at the beginning <br />of the week at a breakfast, that the south side <br />of town is basically the only area right now <br />that has new residential housing. Now, <br />residential housing usually produces families <br />with children who go to school. I basically <br />oppose this plan only because of what the <br />plan has tried to do, and forced the <br />educational system into doing, which I feel is <br />absolutely detrimental to the students who are <br />in the public schools on the south side of <br />town. <br />This location, which is not my assessment of <br />the area, but in reading all the articles of that <br />area, it is a blighted area, there is a very high <br />incidence of crime, on the radio, just in the <br />last two weeks, there have been over twelve <br />IM <br />