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FIRST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION <br />524 E. McKINLEV AVENUE • P.O. BOX 358 • MISHAWAKA, INDIANA 46544 • TEL. 219 - 255 -9624 <br />September 8, 1970 <br />Members of the Common Council <br />City of South Bend <br />County -City Building <br />South Bend, Indiana <br />Attention: Robert 0. Laven, President <br />Dear Members of the Council: <br />I read recently in the South Bend Tribune that the Colpaert Realty <br />Company has made a request for a change in zoning on property lo- <br />cated in the Washington High School area to permit the erection of <br />multi- family'housing. <br />While I believe that there is a continuing need in the community <br />for such housing, the information that I have is that the Colpaert <br />Realty Company is proposing to erect housing under the FHA Section 236 <br />subsidized housing program. I am attaching to my letter a xerox <br />of several pages of the official transcript of the hearings held <br />on November 16, 1967, regarding the request to the Area Board of <br />Zoning Appeals for permission to construct multi - family housing on <br />a site in the Washington High School area under an identical pro- <br />gram now proposed to be utilized by the Colpaert firm to build <br />multi - family housing in the same general area. <br />Note clearly that the Colpaert Realty Company vigorously opposed <br />the request for the development of the multi - family housing when <br />it was proposed in 1967 and made several points as set forth in <br />the transcript, one being that there was no possibility of expansion <br />of the Washington High School and that the construction of this <br />multi - family housing as we had proposed would overburden the school. <br />The other objection to the housing we had proposed, as set forth by <br />the Colpaert firm, was that it was a duplication of the housing proj- <br />ect that was originally intended for the LaSalle Park area. The <br />Polpaert representatives stated, "Such a housing project, of course, <br />(s intended for a class of people who are mainly dependent upon <br />government assistance to pay their rent. This, of course, would <br />ring in an occupancy which is entirely different from the people <br />Fho purchased their houses in a $20,000 to $30,000 class across the <br />street." <br />'a growing corporation` <br />