Amending Zoning Ordinance Section "17-A" Regulating the use of Lands, Buildings, and Occupancies

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Common Council, June 3, 1963 page 2• sites has already been established by the Council by official action and recognition. The determination of sites was also a necessary prerequisite to receiving funds from the Housing and Home Finance Agency for the clearance of the Chapin Street area. In other words, the two projects are tied hand -in- hand. In furtherance of these objectives the City has advanced considerable funds so that neither of these two projects would be delayed. I am of the opinion that the enactment of the foregoing amendment to Section 17 -A of the Zoning Ordinance will cause further delay in completing our public housing project and the clearance of the Chapin Street Project, if it does not altogether destroy the possibility of our proceeding with both projects. If the amendment to Section 17 -A of the Zoning Ordinance is allowed to become law, the City will be required to notify the Public Housing Administration that certain of the land sites selected will have to be rezoned before building thereon can be undertaken. Such rezoning is very likely to be a long process and will require the Council to re -do what it has already ordered done at a prior time. I see no reason why we should be faced with this delay. I do not believe that it is to the best interest of the City of South Bend. I am therefore taking the effective veto steps authorized by Section 48 -1406 Burns Indiana Statutes Annotated and hereby veto the amendment to Section 17 -A of the Zoning Ordinance, Ordinance No. 3702 of the City of South Bend for the following specific reasons: 1. The Common Council of the City of South Bend has previously approved sites for the location of future public housing. The new amended ordinance would prohibit the erection of new public housing without first rezoning a part of the land in question. 2. The requirement to rezone certain of the lands contemplated for use for public housing would delay, if not make impossible, our public housing building program. 3. Since our Chapin Street Redevelopment Program is closely tied with federal housing, the amendment would delay, if not make impossible, the entire Chapin Street Clearance Program. 4. Failure or delay in securing the proper rezoning of certain