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✓ South Bend Redevelopment Commission <br />Regular Meeting - May 21, 1993 <br />6. NEW BUSINESS (Cont.) <br />a. continued... <br />prostitutes who have been arrested in this <br />area. I have swimmers who went to Riley <br />before 5:30 a.m. It kind of concerns me that <br />that's the kind of neighborhood that that high <br />school is in now and will probably continue <br />to be in. I find the area to be very unstable, <br />the crime rate is something that I don't need <br />to talk about: it speaks for itself. Yet, this <br />Commission and the City are trying to force <br />the educational system to pay more than it <br />needs to pay, at least $14,000,000, to build a <br />new high school in this blighted area. I do <br />not see how a high school in a blighted, <br />redevelopment area, is going to increase the <br />city tax base; a high school in a safer area <br />would be much more attractive to people who <br />are buying homes, much more attractive to <br />people who are going to build new homes, <br />and, therefore, send their children to our <br />schools. Just in the Hermitage subdivision <br />alone, which is directly south of the Jackson <br />Middle School, within the last year has been <br />an explosion of new homes. Each one of <br />those homes will pay $2500 to $3000 in new <br />taxes. So, I guess my distress with this <br />whole process has been that this organization <br />and the City have forced the School <br />Corporation and the members are all on <br />record, to make a decision they do not feel is <br />their best decision for the education of the <br />children on the south side. The site is <br />inadequate. There will never be a complete <br />campus there. There will not be room for <br />expansion unless we "tear down more of the <br />safe neighborhood." It just doesn't make a <br />whole lot of sense to me. There will be <br />-40- <br />