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REGULAR MEETING
<br />PETITION
<br />JANUARY 10TH, 1955
<br />Petition of Contemporary Homes, Inc. to rezone Southwest corner of Lot 303 Ti#yckenham Hills Section "G" to
<br />"A" Residence District and "A" Height and Area District.
<br />Councilman Korpal made a motion that the petition be referred to the City Plan Commission. Councilman Hahn
<br />seconded the motion. Motion carried.
<br />REPORT OF BUILDING DEPARTMENT SUMMARY OF BUILDING PERMITS FOR 1954.
<br />President Erler announced that inasmuch as each Councilman received a copy of this Summary of Building Permits
<br />for 1954, the reading of the report would be dispensed with.
<br />Councilman Niezgodski moved that the report be accepted and placed on file. Councilman Korpal seconded the
<br />motion. Motion carried.
<br />REPORT.OF CITY PLAN COMMISSION
<br />Honorable Common Council
<br />City of South Bend
<br />South Bend, Indiana
<br />Gentlemen:
<br />December 21, 1954
<br />The petition of Lock Joint Tube Company referred by the Common Council under date of 8 November, '54 to the
<br />Planning Commission for further study andaccompanied by a recommendation from the Common Council relative to
<br />amending and, in fact, reducing the area petitioned for change to light - industrial, was reconsidered by your
<br />Planning Commission under date of 2 December, '54, at which time it was moved, seconded, and carried that the
<br />Ordinance be recommended for adoption on the basis of the Council's suggested Amendment. Following is a legal
<br />description of the Amendment:
<br />Beginning at a point which is the East line of Sherman
<br />Avenue projected South and the centerline of the first
<br />East -West alley South of Kinyon Street projected East;
<br />thence East a distance of 550: "feet, more or less; thence
<br />to a point on a line projected Southeasterly to intersect
<br />the West right -of -way line of Riverside Drive at a right
<br />angle, said point being 100 feet distance from said West
<br />right -of -way line; thence Southwesterly and parllel to
<br />the West line of Riverside',Drive to a point 100 feet West
<br />of the right -of -way line of Riverside Drive on a line
<br />which is the centerline of the first alley South of
<br />McCartney Street projected East; thence West a distance
<br />of 320 feet; more or less; thence, North to South line
<br />of Queen Street projected East; thence East to the East
<br />line of Sherman Avenue projected South; thence North to
<br />the point of beginning, said land being approximately
<br />6.5 acreas in area and being in the S.E. & S.W. 1/4 Sec
<br />r` 35 T38N R2E in the City of South Bend, County of St. Joseph,
<br />Indiana.
<br />Very truly yours,
<br />CITY PLANNING COMMISSION
<br />(Signed) Robert L. Huff
<br />RLH:aed Director- Secretary
<br />Councilman Glass,,made a motion that the report be accepted and placed on file. Councilman Korpal seconded
<br />the motion. Motion carried.
<br />President Erler requested the Clerk to reread the original Ordinance.
<br />Mr. Joseph Hemphling, attorney for the petitioner, Mr. F. R. Henrekin, Executive Director of the Committee of
<br />100, Edward F. Dose, and Robert L. Huff, Director of City Planning Commission,.all spoke in favor of the
<br />rezoning.
<br />Mr. Louis Hammerschmidt, attorney, Mrs. Alys Chandler, Dan Richardson, B. Redifer and Dan Kolecki, members
<br />of the Northwest Property Owners Association, spoke in opposition to the rezoning.
<br />President Erler stated that the motidn_�to be considered by the Council is whether or not to sustain the
<br />original recommendation.of the Plan Commission for rezoning the 19 acres..
<br />Councilman Niezgodski made the motion (to sustain the Plan Commission's original recommendation for rezoning the
<br />19 acres). Councilman Muszynski seconded the motion., Motion carried by a roll call vote of 5 ayes (Councilmen
<br />Korpal, Pinter, Niezgodski, Glass and Muszynski) - 3 nays (Councilmen Erler, Bestle and Hahn), .
<br />(Remarks by Councilmen when casting their vote).
<br />Mr. Erler: I would like to explain just the reason for the way I am voting. I am in favor of industry and
<br />not in favor of voting out Lock Joint Tube Company. We have worked for some time on a compromise proposal to
<br />allow certain plans for shrubbery, landscaping, etc. so it won't have an effect of deteriorating the neighbor-
<br />hood.
<br />We have an example in Huckins Tool and Die, which is a credit to the neighborhood and there are various others
<br />out on West Sample Street. I think this way about the Lock Joint Tube. We have had this propesal of a buffer
<br />zone around the Lock Joint Tube Company. Therefore, I am voting against this motion of sustaining the
<br />recommendation of the City Planning Commission for the full 19 acres in the hope that we can adopt this
<br />proposed amended ordinance which supersedes the recommendations for the full 19 acres, qnd which has been
<br />approved both by the Council and the Plan Commission."
<br />Mr. Niezgodski: I have always worked for the people in the City of South Bend ........................
<br />It would be only unfair for us to vote against them. The small industries are the back -bone of our City.
<br />Mr. Muszynski: I will not stand in the way of progress. I am voting, "Yes ".
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