Zoning - 35 Acres on East Jefferson

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CITY OF SOUTH BEND SOUTH BEND, INDIANA CITY PLANNING COMMISSION Roy A. WORDEN PRESIDENT J. FRANK MILES VICE-PRESIDENT WALTER GLASS March 7, 1956 GALEN B. SARGENT RAYMOND S. ANDRYSIAK DR. L. A. RADSCH DONALD L. ADAIR FLOYD WER JR. F. R. HEN RE Honorable Common Council EKI N C KI City of South Bend ROBERT L. HUFF South Bend, Indiana DIRECTOR OF PLANNING Gentlemen: The attached petition of Herman N. Light to zone 35 acres on East Jefferson Boulevard to "C-2t' Shopping Center District, as returned to the Planning Commission by the Common Council on February 14, 1956, was considered by your Planning Commission on March 1, 1956, on which date the Commission in executive session, having reconsidered the petition, took the following action: RESOLVED, that the findings adopted by the Commission on January 19, 1956, and the favorable recom- mendation of the Commission to the Common Council be reaffirmed; that the action of the Council rejecting said petition be disapproved; and that a report of this action be filed with the Common Council. Discussion was then had upon the pending action against the Commissioner brought by Louis E. Mundell wherein it is claimed that on January 19, 1956, the Commission found that the area involved in the Light petition does not meet the requirements of the zoning ordinance. It was the consensus that the findings of the Commission show that said area does meet the requirements of the Zoning Ordinance, but to remove ax>,p doubt concerning the findings of the Commission it was on motion duly made, seconded, and unanimously carried: RESOLVED, that it was the finding of the Commission on J.anuary. 19, 1956, 'and : that it is hoW the 'finding of the Commission that the area involved in the Light petition has an acceptable relationship to