25-52 Resolution Approving and Adopting the LaSalle Park Neighborhood Plan

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Neighborhood Landuse Timeline s � N dye ! ' ! _ i ; � 1 .i, __ i ..,:i,_ VVeglect' Charged in Blighted Are 1947-1953 1961-1966 1967 Unregulated Trash Dumping Urban Renewal Plan Debated Blighted Conditions Exposed From the 1g3os until the 195os,part of LaSalle Park In 1g61 the South Bend Urban Redevelopment Residents first organized their response to worsening was occupied by Becks Lake Dump.The dump Commission initially unveils a zoo-acre urban renewal conditions in 1g5g by delivering a petition to the was suspected to contain industrial waste including plan impacting 800 homes,with 150 to be demolished. City's Board of Public Works asking for paved streets. asbestos,plating and paint waste.solvents and oils. Community opposition leads to a revised plan in 1964 sidewalks,and sewer improvements.By 1g63, and arsenic-contaminated foundry sand from Bendix with fewer demolitions and a new community center dilapidated housing conditions were gaining wider Corporation and others. The city acquired the site facility(the future Charles Black Centerl.The 1.1 million community awareness.Prompted by an invitation from in 1.,947 and it closed in 1g53 but Illegal dumping budget includes relocation of 133 families that would local neighborhood leaders,the South Bend Tribune's continued for many years following.The area would still temporarily lose their homes. publishes a front-page story exposing the squalid be transitioned into a city park property over the living conditions noting,"World War II worker housing next decade,but any environmental site assessment carved up into duplexes and overrun with families,filth was probably nonexistent given the regulations and and vermin long overdue for any type of clearance requirements of the era. The"barracks"housing that were constructed zo years prior had fallen into disrepair and the City of South Bend was the landlord.