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South Bend Redevelopment Commission Regular Meeting - October 1, 1993 6. NEW BUSINESS (Cont.) a. continued... Ms. BLACKETOR: No, you'd just release the funds. They'd get the appraisals on their own. MRS. KoLATA: I'm not sure we can do that. MRS. KoLATA: There was a question that Ms. Marsh asked earlier that I didn't answer and that was over the blight. An important thing to know is that not every structure within the neighborhood must be blighted in order to be part of a blighted neighborhood. We recognize that there are homes in the neighborhood that, as individual pieces of property, are not blighted. It is the neighborhood, it is the area as a whole, that is blighted. It is the development area that has been declared blighted and confirmed blighted. Not each single piece of property within the area. MARGARET ouvER: I'm sitting in for my mother, Marie Banks. She's in the hospital. She lives at 310 E. Keasey. She had windows put into her home. She said they had not appraised that yet. But she's still paying on these windows and she's being harassed because she refused to keep paying for windows that they plan on tearing down the house. Ms. KoLATA: If she has a contract to have done the windows, she needs to pay for that. Because the work was done, the windows were repaired, and that's her obligation to pay for those windows. Again, if it's something that she's done recently that she's M.