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Mishawaka Avenue Streetscape Beautification Plan – 2007/2008 Update City of South Bend Division of Community Development 4 A BRIEF PLAN HISTORY The Mishawaka Avenue Beautification Plan Process originated from the 1997 River Park Neighborhood Preservation and Improvement Plan, a future improvement plan and organizational tool which has been successfully utilized and implemented within the River Park Neighborhood. The Preservation and Improvement Plan strived for improvement within the Mishawaka Avenue Corridor via the following steps: making avenue fully accessible for the physically challenged; creating a pedestrian friendly and attractive streetscape; and improving and beautifying neighborhood gateways. The Mishawaka Avenue Streetscape Beautification Plan (1998) took the cue from the Neighborhood Preservation and Improvement Plan by serving as a vehicle to beautify the Avenue as part of a long term comprehensive revitalization effort. The origination of the plan process led to the formation of the Mishawaka Avenue Improvement Committee, who with support from the City of South Bend Division of Planning and Neighborhood Development, established guiding factors and principals (to be detailed later), designated planning sectors, and utilized public input to develop the final plan documents in November 1998. In reading this current plan update document, you’ll note all of these components are still important to the planning process. In 2004, the Mishawaka Avenue Streetscape Beautification planning process was restored to build upon the results of the now completed 1998 plan. The 8 month planning process included the reformation of Mishawaka Avenue Improvement Committee. In again working with the Division of Community Development, the planning process resulted in 2 public input meetings and the addition of 2 planning sectors to the West of the original plan scope (these will be detailed later in this plan). This update would serve as an amendment to the original plan not only by operating under the established framework and guidelines, but also seizing the opportunity to introduce a new distinct stage of improvements that would complement the existing enhancements. The final plan document was completed in September 2004. Figure 2: 2004 Streetscape Beautification Plan Update Figure 1: 1998 Streetscape Beautification Plan