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5. National Register Shaefer/Miami Trail CATHERINE HOSTETLER: Mr. Livingston has completed the ordinance and the legal description of the Chapin Street District. I would like to move that the agenda be amended to allow Mr. Livingston to address this at this point during the meeting. JOHN LIVINGSTON: The ordinance itself is a couple of paragraphs with four pages of legal description. We need a recommendation from the commission for the establishment of a historic preservation district. We shall then present that to the Common Council. I think that's the quickest way to go. VIRGINIA O'HAIR: I move that this be approved. LYNN PATRICK: Seconds the motion and it passes unanimously. CATHERINE HOSTETLER: German Township is getting a closer look from an archeological person from Notre Dame on its Indian heritage which may give further support to it being designated as a LHD. 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; it needs to be studied more thoroughly. The Districts Committee would like to respectfully remind the commission that the many local historic districts and the numerous landmarks must be administered by a staff that is composed of only two full time and one part time position. They are also responsible for educating the residents of these districts and monitoring their progress. (This is not an official Committee Report). 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 affirmative action regarding it. 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 Z