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South Bend Redevelopment Commission <br /> Regular Meeting—November 8, 2012 <br /> 6. NEW BUSINESS <br /> A. Public Hearings <br /> (3) continued... <br /> October 18, 2012 neighborhood associations and interested parties were sent notice of the <br /> Public Hearing; (8)The mail was checked prior to this meeting. As of 9:30 a.m., November <br /> 8, 2012, there were 0 written remonstrances received related to Resolution No.3102. <br /> Ms. Jones opened the Public Hearing for whoever wished to be heard concerning Resolution <br /> No. 3102. <br /> Mr. Donald Schefineyer: I am president of the East Bank Village Partnership. The Master <br /> Plan which is before you for approval is one that has had a gestation since 1994, at which <br /> time our neighborhood commissioned an architect by the name of David Sassano to do a plan <br /> which we felt would be a good improvement for the area and to return the Howard Park <br /> neighborhood to its original fine condition. In accordance with, potentially, the type of <br /> housing that was developed in the Wayne Street/Sunnymede tract, which has been one of the <br /> most successful housing projects in the city's history. It was originally laid out with a lot of <br /> single family residential (as a matter of fact, mainly single family residential), and then over <br /> the years the community got involved and the neighborhood became more extensively <br /> involved when the Holladay Corporation committed a group from Chicago called JJR to <br /> come in and put together a series of charettes and neighborhood and community meetings to <br /> discuss the implications of the redevelopment of the Howard Park neighborhood, with a path <br /> along the river, potentially to include some changes to the viaduct system, the Cooper Street <br /> Bridge. Out of those meetings, which were held over a period of about a week, four plans <br /> emerged. This particular plan was the one that was chosen by acclamation and was then <br /> presented in due fashion at the Century Center at a community-wide meeting and had <br /> essentially no opposition. I thought that was quite extraordinary because there was <br /> opposition at almost every level to the various aspects of most of the plans; but on balance <br /> this one met the test of time and was essentially universally approved. So, I believe this is <br /> the last step in the approval process and I urge its adoption. <br /> There was no one else who wished to speak regarding Resolution No. 3102. Ms. Jones <br /> closed the Public Hearing for whatever action the Commission wished to take. <br /> (4) Consideration of Resolution No. 3102. <br /> Upon a motion by Mr. Downes, seconded by Mr. Varner and unanimously carried, the <br /> Commission approved Resolution No. 3102 confirming a resolution adopting the Howard <br /> Park Neighborhood Master Plan and amending the Development Plan for the South Bend <br /> Central Development Area. <br /> 5 <br />