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40 Zelger: So moved. Chase: Second. Klusczinski: All in favor? (Ayes are heard) Opposed? (Aye is heard). Motion carries with one in opposition. Moved: Zeiger Second: Chase To approved amended 2007-0605 Approved 5-1, Sporleder opposed Date: June 8, 2007 Application Number: 2007-0608 Property Location: Leeper Park West along Riverside Drive Property Owner: City of South Bend Landmark or District Designation: Local Landmark and National Register Landscape Landmark STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE/HISTORIC CONTEXT: Leeper Park is a designed landscape located in South Bend, Indiana in a residential area immediately north of the Downtown commercial district of the city. In 1911, noted landscape architect George Kessler prepared a master plan for south Bend to develop a citywide park and boulevard system. Leeper Park becamea focal point within Kessler's Plan. APPLICATION ITEMS: To connect the existing sidewalk segment, located in the northern section of Leeper Park along Riverside Drive, with a new five-foot wide concrete sidewalk to the segment of sidewalk at Riverside Drive on the top of the bluff. (See attached color scale drawing, Exhibit A) The connecting sidewalk will be approximately 355 feet long and it will have an access ramp directly across from the access ramp for the sidewalk on the south side of Riverside Drive in Leeper Park. (The work on the south side was approved by the Commission in COA #2006-0306A on March 20, 2006) Standards for Leeper Park: 9.5 Circulation #3 Alteration of existing or addition of new circulation layouts will be considered if it can be shown that better site circulation is necessary and that the alteration does not alter the basic concept of the historic landscape design. RECOMMENDATION: Kessler's sketch of his plan for Leeper Park is the basis for the landscape landmark In Kessler's sketch the area for the proposed sidewalk is not developed. (See Exhibit B). An "informal" pathway connecting these two sidewalk segments has developed over the last century. Staff recommends approval, as it does not alter the basic concept of the historic landscape design. Klusczinski: Could you please state your name and address? Brown: My name is Pat Brown. I'm a landscape architect with SiteScapes, Inc., 1816 N. Main Street, Mishawaka. With me tonight is Mike Dyszkiewicz, Director of Maintenance, South Bend Parks. This is the proposed renovation for Leeper Park tennis. We worked with the Parks over the last several weeks looking at different design options. We considered keeping it as it was, changing things a little bit, expanding it, and this is the final design scheme after five different options, and this is what the Parks Department would like to do. Currently, there are 15 tennis courts, this changes it to fourteen. Currently, it shows the corners, the ends, were four single courts, with this new arrangement, the top, the north half will stay as is, and the south we're going to take off one single court and make all of these doubles. That will allow a spectator area through here. Actually, we lose one court, but we've picked up an extra double. So, now we have twelve double courts so when you're doing tournament play or invitations, having an even number of courts helps with the staging of everything. Also, if you're familiar with it, right down the center of the existing courts there's like a four foot wide walkway that one side has a four feet fence. So when the students are out there or the players, they have to sneak through that little area, they're exposed to the tennis balls, and it's very tough and a dangerous situation. Also, everybody that wants to come in has to come through the building, through the office and out the