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Neighborhood Landuse Timeline <br /> 1,, „: , /or 4 dri itallir t -• <br /> a E .1 1. , . _ i ri <br /> . . •t ..... . ,..., -,A i ' 4,1 --',,-;.,,% - <br /> -,; a4' • 1�, A: i-.01+01 ''`-,_r Neglect' Charged in Blighted Are <br /> 1947-1953 1961-1966 1967 <br /> Unregulated Trash Dumping Urban Renewal Plan Debated Blighted Conditions Exposed <br /> From the ig3os until the igsos.part of LaSalle Park In ig6i the South Bend Urban Redevelopment Residents first organized their response to worsening <br /> was occupied by Beck's Lake Dump.The dump Commission initially unveils a 200-acre urban renewal conditions in ig5g by delivering a petition to the <br /> was suspected to contain industrial waste including plan impacting 800 homes,with i5o to be demolished. City's Board of Public Works asking for paved streets. <br /> asbestos,plating and paint waste,solvents and oils, Community opposition leads to a revised plan in 1964 sidewalks,and sewer improvements.By 1963, <br /> and arsenic-contaminated foundry sand from Bendix with fewer demolitions and a new community center dilapidated housing conditions were gaining wider <br /> Corporation and others. The city acquired the site facility(the future Charles Black Center).The 11 million community awareness,Prompted by an invitation from <br /> in 1947 and it closed in 1953 but Illegal dumping budget includes relocation of 1.33 families that would local neighborhood leaders,the South Bend Tribune's <br /> continued for many years following.The area would still temporarily lose their homes. publishes a front-page story exposing the squalid <br /> be transitioned into a city park property over the living conditions noting."World War II worker housing <br /> next decade,but any environmental site assessment carved up into duplexes and overrun with families.filth <br /> was probably nonexistent given the regulations and and vermin long overdue for any type of clearance". <br /> requirements of the era. The'barracks"housing that were constructed zo years <br /> prior had fallen into disrepair and the City of South <br /> Bend was the landlord. <br /> Si,hsecG�i 11 <br />