2008-06-05 Redevelopment Authority Minutes

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The South Bend Redevelopment Authority June 5, 2008 Meeting Minutes little to the west and to the north. The property to the north is most pertinent to the Authority. Ms. Laurent said there is a sewer line that runs through there, so the maximum additional feet would be 22'. This would also require taking the southern most row of parking at the College Football Hall of Fame, but would still allow good circulation in that parking lot. Ms. Laurent said the. process requires transferring property from the Authority to the Commission, who would turn it over to the developer. To be able to transfer the property, from Ms. Laurent's understanding, is to prove that we are not taking more than 10% of the overall property to satisfy the bond requirements. This process has been done previously for the South Bend Chocolate Cafe. Ms. Greene said there are a couple of other points that need to be made. When we did the Chocolate Cafe project, one other issue has to be with the Fire Department getting through the two streets and the second was a clear easement issue that was to be maintained from Century Center to the Courthouse. This site easement does not exist, but we had to deal with that when the South Bend Chocolate property expanded. There is a small distinction between this project and Gameday's. Gameday had extensive conversations with the Hall of Fame about some shared parking and Ms. Greene was not sure how it all ended up. She wanted the Authority to be aware of these issues. Ms. Laurent said we have been in communication with the College Football Hall of Fame's Executive Director through this and tried to be as communicative as possible as information.. comes from the developer. What we are looking at doing, since we will loose the one row of parking is to create on- streetparking on St. Joseph. There will be a few spaces in front of the Hall of Fame and across the street. The lanes are wide enough to be able to add on-street parking on both sides of the street. Ms. Laurent said one day St. Joe may be two-way traffic and we are trying not to do anything to preclude that. Ms. Laurent said we are bringing in traffic calming measures to slow the traffic down, and are working with INDOT and our city engineers. This issue of traffic calming on St. Joseph Street and uniting the art center with the rest of downtown has been discussed for five years. Ms. Laurent wanted to let the Authority know that we are working on this and official action will be .coming. On June 6 the Redevelopment Commission will look at the development agreement with the developer. The hotel. with be a Courtyard by Marriott and be at least eleven floors high. 5. NEXT MEETING DATE: June 18, 2008 6. ADJOURNMENT There being no further business to come before the Redevelopment Authority the meeting was adjourned at 2:15 p.m. Jos Alv z, President H:\WPDATAWUTHORTY\060508. MIN.DOC Donald I s, Director