04-25-13 Redevelopment Commission Minutes

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South Bend Redevelopment Commission Regular Meeting —April 25, 2013 6. NEW BUSINESS (CONT.) H. Ratification of Services Contracts Upon a motion by Mr. Downes, seconded by Mr. Alford and unanimously carried, the Commission ratified the Services Contracts. 7. PROGRESS REPORTS A. Other (1) Fellows Street Update Improvement Project Mr. Kain noted that on April 18, 2013, a public meeting was held for the residents of Fellows St. The majority of the residents did attend to hear the progress on the Fellows St. /Ireland Rd. intersection. INDOT informed us that the project they are currently working on has been delayed, so their anticipated completion time of June has been moved to later this year. The Fellows St. acquisition process has begun, which includes one full acquisition, some partial acquisitions, and some construction easements. The acquisition process will take approximately 4 -6 months. Therefore, the construction of the Fellows St. and Ireland Rd. intersection will not happen this year, but in spring 2014. The drainage solution which many of the residents complained about will be addressed through pervious pavement, allowing the water to drain directly into the ground. There will be a small retention pond on the northwest corner of Fellows and Ireland. It will be a dry pond which will accumulate a maximum of12 -24 inches of water. All of these issues were communicated in meeting with the residents of Fellows St. and had a very positive outcome. The only concern that was expressed was the wish for an additional stop sign on Fellows St. and Walter. The city engineer said that stop signs are driven by traffic count and the traffic counts there do not warrant an additional stop sign. Beyond that the meeting was a positive one. Mr. Kain noted that 2 of the traffic calming solutions will be implemented this year: one being the 3 -way stop sign and the second being the parking striping. Mr. Downes asked if once INDOT is finished with their construction, are we planning to do future traffic counts to make sure the estimates we based our decisions on are correct. Mr. Kain responded we will be working with MACOG who does the traffic counts, to give us both a baseline count and a count after the new road is opened. We will continue to monitor the count occasionally. (2) Call for Offers Mr. Inks noted that there are two calls for offers that are currently out. One will be returned Friday, April 24 and the other to be returned on Wednesday, May 01. Also the Commission is in the process of putting the finishing touches on a Request for Proposal (RFP) for an accelerator building at Ignition Park. 15