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South Bend Redevelopment Commission <br />Regular Meeting - May 21, 1993 <br />6. NEW BUSINESS (Cont.) <br />a. continued... <br />inadequate athletic facilities; there will be <br />inadequate site for parking; and in order to <br />provide a truly first class high school for the <br />south side of South Bend, we'll just have to <br />continue eating up that neighborhood. On top <br />of that, what then happens to the elementary <br />school which is a neighborhood elementary <br />school, and just at the beginning of this week <br />a very tragic thing happened —a child was <br />killed crossing in front of a bus. Are we <br />going to then make those kids, because we <br />have to close their elementary because there <br />are not enough kids in that school? Are we <br />then going to put those kids on a bus and <br />possibly put their lives in danger? That was a <br />true accident. There was no malintent there. <br />But accidents do happen. And even in the <br />process of doing this, a major thoroughfare is <br />going to be required to be closed. Now the <br />City Council has not passed on that, but in <br />the present plan before the School Board, <br />they are asking to close Calvert Street. What <br />impact does that have on this whole area? <br />Where do those cars go when Calvert is <br />closed? Up and around the elementary <br />school. I definitely feel that this plan is a <br />negative system on the south side of town. I <br />do not think that they have taken into <br />consideration when they put pressure on the <br />School Board to make that decision. They <br />did not take into consideration the true impact <br />in that immediate neighborhood, on that <br />neighborhood elementary school, and on that <br />whole educational system on the south side of <br />town. There will be no room there to expand <br />for vocational kinds of programs which are <br />-41- <br />