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Areq Board of Zoning Appeals—December 5, 2012 SOUTH BEND HERITAGE The petition of South Bend Heritage seeking a Special Exception to allow a single family home in a"MFV district, on property located at 819 Oak Street, Portage Township. Zoned"MIFF'. MS. ANN MANNIX: I live at 724 W. Washington Street, South Bend. This is a petition,there is a house 819 Oak Street. It's been vacant since 2000. It's currently zoned"MF I". I've applied for funding along with South Bend Heritage to tear the house and build a new single family home on the site. And we need a Special Exception use because the district it's in is "MF1". MR. URBANSKI: Thank you. Area Plan? MS.NAYDER: I was just going to point out that Lincoln Park plan was actually just approved by the Council and the Area Plan Commission in the past couple of months so that may not be something you're familiar with as a Board and they're working on that area and this site specifically mentioned as being single family. They're kind of trying to make single family housing more prevalent in that area and this also was the, it was listed as poor condition when they did site survey of the houses in the area. MR. PHIPPS: Christa, is a lot of that area zoned multi family? MS.NAYDER: It is. There's an odd strip that kind of comes down from Lincolnway that is multi family. It doesn't look like from site visits that, I mean a lot of it is vacant and it doesn't appear that there's large multi family_structures, there may be some duplexes or something out there but a lot of them also look like they're single family homes. I think this was a single family home prior to it being vacant. MS. MANNIX: Probably, I don't know. One person wanted to do a duplex. MR. URBANSKI: Is this going to be a rental property or are you going to sell it? MS. MANNIX: It's a rental property. IN FAVOR MR. CHRIS DRESSELL: City of South Bend Department of Community Investment,with offices on the 14th floor of this building. I just wanted to be here and support this petition as it as staff noted consistent with the Lincoln Park neighborhood revitalization plan and plan among many other things does support opportunities for increase housing opportunities and improvement to the neighborhood in general. Thank you. REMONSTRANCE There was no one present to speak in remonstrance of this petition. 28