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3 <br />The first portion of this Petition concerns the request to ask for <br />approval of a Special Exception to allow for the operation of a Resource <br />Recovery facility /Transfer Station for property located at 1020 Webster <br />Street in South Bend, Indiana per Section 21 -04.02 (A)(2)(B)(D) of the <br />City of South Bend Zoning Ordinance. The property is presently zoned <br />"GI" General Industrial, but the Ordinance requires approval of a <br />Special Exception to operate a Resource Recovery facility /Transfer <br />Station. This site is located in the middle of an old industrial area <br />within the City limits. The site is surrounded by a variety of <br />industrial operations, from junk yards, storage areas for various types <br />of building materials and storage of heavy -duty construction vehicles. <br />The Petitioners would state that this site is centrally located for <br />their operations. It allows for their collection trucks to bring filled <br />trash containers of materials to be emptied and then placed in larger <br />trucks which will transfer the materials to various facilities for <br />either recycling or placement in a landfill site. This type of use <br />appears to fit well with the existing surrounding industrial operations. <br />The Petitioners would ask the Board Members to agree that approval <br />of the Special Exception to allow for a Resource Recovery <br />facility /Transfer Station, would not be injurious to the public health, <br />safety, comfort, community moral standards, convenience or general <br />welfare, or injure or adversely affect the use of the adjacent area or <br />property values therein, and that the proposed uses will be consistent <br />with the character of the district in which they are located and the <br />land uses authorized therein, and that the proposed uses are compatible <br />with the recommendations of the City of South Bend Comprehensive plan, <br />all of which is requested by the South Bend Municipal Code § 21 -09.03 <br />(i) . <br />With regards to the site, the following Variances are also being <br />requested to be approved. <br />The first Variance request is from the requirement of providing <br />perimeter landscaping of one (1) deciduous tree at a minimum spacing of <br />40 feet on- center along the North, East, West and South property lines <br />to providing no perimeter landscaping. The Petition site is an old <br />industrial property south of the downtown core. The Petition property is <br />surrounded by several other industrial sites as mentioned above. The <br />Petitioners are asking not to be required to add perimeter trees around <br />the boundary of the site, which abut the other industrial sites to the <br />North, East West and South. This area has been industrial for the past <br />several decades and is not part of any new industrial park development. <br />Having to plant perimeter trees along all four sides of the property <br />would not be desirable on the mentioned property lines as the trees <br />would be difficult to care for in order to assure their survival. They <br />do not believe approval of this Variance would have a detrimental effect <br />on any surrounding property. <br />The second Variance request is from the minimum required 150 feet of <br />frontage along an improved dedicated right -of -way to a minimum of 80 <br />