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Y <br /> GABRIEL WINDT <br /> The petition of Gabriel Windt seeking a Special Exception to allow a tattoo and body piercing establishment <br /> in a "LB" district, on property located at 1107 Mishawaka Ave.,Portage Township. Zoned "LB". <br /> MR. GABRIEL WINDT: I reside at 1125 Blaine Ave., South Bend, Indiana, in the Near Northwest <br /> Neighborhood. I'm here today seeking a Special Exception use for the property on Mishawaka Ave, Right <br /> now it is currently in really bad condition and we want to completely rehabilitate it and turn it into a fine art <br /> gallery and tattoo studio. My business partner Dan Miller is also my friend and licensed contractor and <br /> owner of Kingdom Builders and he will be facilitating a lot of construction and overseeing the growth of the <br /> business. He's been in business for the past ten years and has been very successful. And our plans for the <br /> use of the tattoo studio,there's been a stigma attached to this industry for quite some time because of the past <br /> history in the dark days of what the tattoo industry used to be. I believe we've come out of those days and in <br /> society today tattooing is accepted as a fine art and it should be seen as a fine art and I just want to offer <br /> something good such as David Martin with his petition and bring some good to South Bend. We're also <br /> going to have a clothing line called Ink and Stitches that will be selling out of the store and we plan on <br /> holding art instructional work shops to the community and we have merchandise we would be selling. We <br /> have been working on holiday merchandise, such as Christmas ornaments. All kinds of good stuff. So hope <br /> for your favorable recommendation. <br /> MR. BULOT: I just want you to be aware that if this does pass favorably and you're allowed the Special <br /> Exception, in order to change this into your particular use it's considered a change of use and you would <br /> have to submit to the State for that change of use which requires plans and a submission for that change of <br /> use and you'd have to go through our office. ve to talk to you about that when and if that occurs. <br /> 35 <br />