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Area Board of Zoning Appeals—December 5, 2012 And my last note, as my wife had mentioned, I asked the Board to show to relevance this business is being advertised at this address already. Thanks guys. MR. JOHN VONLACKUM: For the last l I years I have lived at 1116 E. Bronson Street. That is right on the alley between Jefferson a half a block away and this location a half a block the other way. And we have just seen morning and evening a lots of school kids walking through there on their way to school. And I'm wondering about their safety and how will this interfere with that or will it interfere with the save passage of kids in our neighborhood. That's it. MS. MARY WATERSON: I'm at 1139 E. Bronson. And my husband and I have lived there for over 40 years. In fact if he didn't have the flu he'd be here today. And we are totally against having a tattoo parlor in our neighborhood. I canvassed the neighbors on Bronson Street and the ones that happened to be home when I came, all signed the petition. I frankly believe that building, the filling station, that needs to be torn down. It's in bad shape and there, if you're coming from the north there's no access on Mishawaka Ave. You're going to have to go down Belmont or Bronson through the alley to get to the tattoo parlor. And as these other people have pointed out Jefferson School is right there. The children walk down these streets to get to school and there's the church there on the corner of Bronson and Belmont and so I just want to say that I am totally against having a tattoo, piercing and this is a residential area with lots of young children. MR. URBANSKI: Thank you ma'am. MS. JO ANNE DETLEF: I live at 1129 Belmont. My husband and I moved in there about 44 years ago, I think. We are the third owners of our house. As I've looked around at the houses around my house,which is at the end of the block close to the 1107 Mishawaka Ave. property, I can say that in this 85 year old neighborhood most of the houses have had about 3 owners. At most five. We're an established neighborhood. We're families that move in with small children or no children,raise our children there and our children come back with grandchildren. So my neighbors who aren't young like Josh and Rachel who are here with their three children today have their grandchildren visiting, And it's not just, not just the seven children very close,we have about 15 young children within the 600'radius that was notified. And no one has said anything either about the Newman Center which is directly across Mishawaka Ave. from this property. And the number of children there and children that go there alone. I called the Health Department because I'm very much concerned about health issues and body piercing and tattoo. And I had gone on the State Health Departments web site to see what the standards are, so I read those and was rather horrified when I saw that tattoo parlors are major source for spreading Hepatitis B primarily. There is a vaccine for that. But also Hepatitis C and HIV for which you all know there is no vaccine. I called the Health Department local County Health Department this morning to ask how often inspections occur. They said "once a year." Once a year, handling hazardous products. And then I said, "what kind of requirements are there to be a tattoo administrator, body piercer"? They told me they have to pass a test to show that they're Hepatitis free, HIV free, STD free and a couple of other things. And I said "how often do they have to have that test"? I said "is that required, does it have to be repeated once a year at least"? They said"no". Well I was astounded because we all know, if you listen to the news, you've heard national health officials saying probably a third of our boomer and younger generation are caring Hepatitis in some form unknown to them and they're urging all of them to be tested for it, Well once a year testing or testing inspection when virus 45