10-25-12 Redevelopment Commission Minutes.docx

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South Bend Redevelopment Commission Regular Meeting—October 25, 2012 4. COMMUNICATIONS (CONT.) A. continued... October 9, 2012 Adam C. Detwiler 4312 Fellows Street South Bend, Indiana 46614 Home: (574) 520-1719 Cell: (574) 339-8359 acdetwilerklive.com South Bend City Replanning Commission 227 West Jefferson Street South Bend, Indiana 46601 Dear Commissioners, I am one of the homeowners in the Fellows Street Corridor, where there are current proposals for redevelopment. I am writing this letter to you all today to respectfully inform you all that my household will no longer be cooperating with any plans of redevelopment in the Fellows Street Corridor in any way, shape or form. I am hoping that this letter will also enlighten you to the fractured nature of this project and the misuse of City funding that this project involves. Furthermore, I am wanting the Commission to see how the citizens in my neighborhood have been mistreated, misinformed, and misrepresented by Bill Schalliol and will seriously question his motives involved with this project. I do not wish to seem ungrateful in any way for the time and effort that the Commission has put into accommodating the needs of the citizens affected by this project. I do appreciate the tabling and revising of this project to stop the destruction of my home. The problem that I have now is that this project should have never even been proposed according to the clarification of the INDOT plans for US 31. I was under the assumption from both the maps I was shown, and the projected number of vehicles to travel down Fellows Street, that US 31 was to be cut off at the US 20 bypass. This would create a situation in which the only options that travelers would have would be to get onto the US 20 bypass or use this new access road that INDOT is building from Kern Road to Ireland Road via the new flyover. At this point, I truly believed that to do nothing at all would be irresponsible, but I didn't want to lose my home, nor have this new traffic driving down my street. Plan C seemed to fix this problem, but the newest Plan C would come at a great cost of convenience to my neighbors, the patrons of the O'Brien Center, and me. This also would take out two businesses on Ireland Road, creating a loss of tax revenue. On Wednesday, October 3, 2012, I was called to a meeting with Jason,from Burke Engineering, and Bill Schalliol, representing the City of South Bend. I went into the meeting with an open mind in hopes of a final, acceptable resolution. My mood changed drastically when I questioned if there would be local truck and semi traffic coming down the road. I was told no, except for the occasional lost truck. When I questioned where local delivery traffic would be routed instead, I was told that they would use US 31 to enter and 4