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The newly created industrial park at the Studebaker site will bring an underutilized, vacant, and abandoned property back into productive reuse. A large part of that revitalization is the removal of the existing gigantic derelict buildings and replacing them with new modem facilities. The new industrial park will feature pedestrian access and a significantly improved streetscape and street presence. The addition of landscaped berms, masonry gateway signage, tree lawns, and pedestrian walkways will greatly improve the aesthetic appearance and overall character of the entire area. Given the industrial nature of the surrounding land uses, the plan does not call for the creatioii of parkland, as the juxtaposing of two conflicting land uses was deemed inappropriate by the planning group that created the redevelopment strategy. 2. The Studebaker/Oliver Redevelopment project integrates:the efforts and resources of the City's entire brownfield initiative. The City has created a Brownfield Team,`whose; mission encourages redevelopment and adaptive °reuse of brownfield sites.- -A. copy of the Brownfields Policy Statement is provided at AttachmeAnt : By.focusing on brownfield sites South Bend is placing its best foot forward on the path tabecoming a 21" Century City. The redevelopment effort in the Studebaker Corridor is `one of (x) brownfield redevelopment projects and undertakings that the City is managing :By combining the knowledge base of the water, public works;'' engineering; wastewater, community & economic development and legal departments, and the:Area Plan Commission the community has a group of professionals that together manage a series of interrelated brownfield redevelopment projects. Wheri those projects are'coordinated through the Brownfield Team, a better end'producf results:for, the citizens of the community. r= E. Communitv Involvement 1. Residents of South Bend 'were ,notified of the intent to submit the Initial Proposal for the Studebaker Stamping Plant Cleanup Grant to EPA through a South Bend Common Council resolution: A: presentation:ofi the"EPA grant program and the contents of the Initial'Propo'sal" was,made at the Common'Council meeting on December 9, 2002. The resolution authorizing submission of the hitial Proposal was passed at that meeting after a public hearing at which there was no remonstrance or comment on the submission of the proposal. A public meeting on the Final Proposal was held on March 13, 2003 at the downtown brancli' of The St:',Joseph County Library. The notice of this meeting was printed in the March 10,2003 edition of the South Bend Tribune (See Attachment B). The Meeting was announced'at"the March 10, 2003 meeting of the Common Council and copies of the notice were available:at'ihe City Clerk's office. Two hundred fourteen copies of the Meeting Notice were also mailed to community leaders, neighborhood organizations, business organizations, the Studebaker Corridor Redevelopment Strategy Steering Committee, the Community Revitalization Enhancement District (CREED) Advisory Board, co-chairs of the Commercial Corridor Steering Committees, Common Council