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CATHERINE HOSTETLER: A PhD candidate from Notre Dame will be searching the German Township area for sites connected to Native American heritage. This may support designation of a district. With all of the work that needs to be done, we would strongly recommend that Bronson/Sunnymede— especially in its expanded form -be put off until next year. The staff has enough to do; and even if we added staff; the neighborhood needs to be studied more thoroughly. The Districts Committee Chair would like to respectfully remind the commission that the many local historic districts and the numerous landmarks must be administered by the Commission with a staff composed of only two full -time and one part-time positions. They are also responsible for educating the residents of these districts and monitoring their progress. D. STAFF REPORTS 1. 531 S. St. Joseph Street, Taylor's Field Local Historic District: Code Enforcement possible request for demolition pending. KAREN HAMMOND -NASH: The commission will recall this was a matter brought to the commission's attention at the time of the Southhold Awards Ceremony when the liaisons from the Taylor's Field Local Historic District raised this house as a matter of concern and asked the commission to petition Code Enforcement to take action. We did do that and we attended a code enforcement hearing last summer. Code Enforcement has been actually fairly aggressive in trying to clean up this property since at least the year 2000 and possibly before that. This summer a thousand dollar fine was imposed against Providence Bank for their improvident treatment of this house. Code Enforcement has not seen any improvement regarding this situation. Over the last several years there has been an accelerated problem with homeless persons, drug users, and possibly petty thieves getting in and out of the building and using it for improper purposes. We received information from the inspector, and they see no alternative at this point; but to seek demolition. I discussed the matter with John Oxian, and he asked me to talk with Kil Architecture about the possibility of them taking the property as a receivership. Kil Architecture was not interested in that option. JOHN OXIAN: Several years ago I tried to get this house put on the receivership program. We had meetings with Code Enforcement regarding this. Every time Code Eenforcement heard back from the bank they gave another excuse and would not place the house in receivership. That is why the house is in the condition that it is in today. This is inexcusable, and I can't go along with demolition. I still say that we should try for at least one more month to see if we can find a receiver; before, I would even think about allowing demolition. Is Code Enforcement willing to go along with the receivership program? Karen stated that Code Enforcement was not willing to talk to them about any possible proposal. John then said he would make some phone calls and if he was not able to find out anything then Code Enforcement would have to come in with a C of A. 2. 1158 Lincolnway East, local district, partial loss of contributing structure; also 1402 -1404 Lincolnway East, Code Enforcement Issue, 2002 C of A. 5