Resolution 02-2023 - 10 Most Endangered

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NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Commission as follows: 1. The Commission expresses the strongest support for the preservation of these properties, 2. The Commission advocates for the deployment of available local financial resources to assist property owners in stabilization, restoration, and rehabilitation efforts; 3. The Commission encourages adaptive reuse of those structures listed above that may constitute vacant, abandoned, or otherwise neglected, structures; 4. The Commission, when necessary, supports the use of enforcement mechanisms, afforded either by controlling laws or agreed upon Standards and Guidelines, to achieve compliance with maintenance of properties within its jurisdiction subject to the same; 5. The Commission advocates policies that facilitate relocating structures threatened with imminent demolition to new sites to better ensure their preservation, 6. The Commission directs its Staff to present this Resolution to: each of the Owners of Record specifically identified for the 10 properties listed above; all appointing bodies of the Commission (specifically, the Mayor, the Common Council of the City of South Bend, the St. Joseph County Council, and the Board of Commissioners of St. Joseph County), specific departments within the City of South Bend, including the Department of Community Investment; the St. Joseph County Building Department; and Indiana Landmarks. 7. This Resolution shall take effect immediately upon its adoption by the Commission. ADOPTED at a meeting of the Historic Preservation Commission of South Bend and St. Joseph County, Indiana, held on May 15, 2023. HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION OF SOUTH BEND AND ST. JOSEPH COUNTY ®rah Andrews, President ATTEST: 9 Ok o 0c�---L — `� Alb 4--em Joan Downs-Krostenko, Arch. Historian/Secretary Davi ncott, Vice President [Signatures continue on next page]