Special Exception - Property located at 117 N. Main St.

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DAVID MARTIN The petition of David Martin seeking a Special Exception to allow a tattoo and body piercing establishment in a "CBD" District and a variance from 2 to 50 controlled uses within 1000' and from the 500' minimum distance from a church to 300', on property located at 117 N. Main Street, Portage Township. Zoned "CBD ". MR. DAVID MARTIN: I live at 56415 Westlea Drive, South Bend. I'm already an established business downtown, we're just switching locations roughly about a half a block from where we currently are. We actually like the location we in now but the building we're in is having major maintenance problems that are above us. And for the whole year we've had problems with water leakage and it was compounded when the weather changed. Right now if you go to our spa there's spots on the floor from leaking and the nature of our business we feel it's unsafe for our customers. And since it's caused from leakage above us we feel it's not a maintenance issue that we have control over. I know with the church, we're getting closer to the church, our storefront does not face the church. They will not see any of our signage. They probably won't even see people entering our building. We're already established. We're real quiet neighbors. We just love downtown and we'd like to stay downtown in a nice safe location. MR. VELLEMAN: Will you be buying this building or are you going to be renting it? MR. MARTIN: I'm going to be renting it. MR. VELLEMAN: Is the tanning salon next to that still? MR. MARTIN: The Body Evolution? MR. VELLEMAN: Yeah. MR. MARTIN: Yeah it's right next to where it used to be Emblazing Salon. It's where US Cellular used to be. MR. VELLEMAN: You're on the north side of that building? MR. MARTIN: Yeah. MR. VELLEMAN: Is the tanning salon now considered a controlled use because of the new legislation that you can't be under 16 and have all of that or anything? Does anybody know? COULD NOT HEAR WHAT WAS SAID MR. HAWLEY: When did you move in to the building you're in now? It seems like you were just... MR. MARTIN: This was just last year and the thing of it is, when we moved in we didn't think to look above ceiling tiles and stuff like that. If you go there now like the last major water we leak we had, the landlord fixed the ceiling tiles but if you move the ceiling tiles you can see the second floor. And it's, I feel like I'm being needy to him cause I feel like I'm always calling him saying "hey, you know the stuff on the