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South Bend Redevelopment Commission <br />Regular Meeting November 10, 2014 <br />6. NEW BUSINESS (CONT.) <br />A. Public Hearings <br />(5) continued... <br />my home going to be protected? So my question is, if you're not including any residential <br />areas on the west side, but you've already included for a long time large residential areas on <br />the southeast side; and what you did with the residential areas on the northeast side makes us <br />wonder what you want to do in our neighborhood. <br />Mr. Ford: Conrad, thank you for your comments. I will address your last question first. <br />The area in the southeast is part of the old Sample -Ewing Development Area that was <br />merged into the Airport Economic Development Area. Going forward none of the areas <br />that were added was residential. That was a legacy of a prior TIF district. I will say, <br />though, that last week we had a great meeting with Pastor Ricardo Taylor and his new group <br />called 466 Works and we're developing a quality of life plan that's going to stretch from <br />Ewing up to Lincolnway East and from Michigan Street to Miami Street. I think it would be <br />critical to have redevelopment powers in that area so that the area approaching Riley High <br />School, for example, or surrounding the Studebaker Golf Course, there could be new <br />amenities that would serve the entire area. I can also tell you that Ewing Street is slated for <br />new pavement and improvements next year. The main reason there wasn't a large capture in <br />the neighborhoods is that we don't collect residential taxes in the TIF. We think we can <br />have a strong impact on the neighborhoods by getting the entrances into the neighborhoods, <br />having those connected areas, and establishing the parks and trails that are going to be <br />interspersed throughout. The multipurpose trail and the former rail tracks and several other <br />parks that are in the neighborhoods would be very much supported in this realignment. <br />Mr. Craig McMorris: I live on Lincolnway at Cleveland St. About eight years ago there <br />was some work done on Lincolnway: it was repaved and they took all the trees out. In the <br />process of taking the trees out they cracked up all the sidewalks of all the residents. Now <br />the state came in and replaced the corners. We have nice new corners on it-- -we've had <br />those for some years, but no one ever came to repair the cracked sidewalks. I called the city <br />for a few years and got the runaround. They said that at some point they planned to come in <br />and do new sidewalks. But eventually it had to come out of my pocket to replace my <br />sidewalk because the elderly walk through there and it's dangerous to have cracked <br />sidewalks. Eventually, I got a neighbor who came in and extended from my house to the <br />corner so we got a fairly decent area to walk through now, but I'm concerned about who's <br />going to be accountable and responsible for the problems that come up when you come in to <br />do this redevelopment? <br />Mr. Ford: Craig, I appreciate your comments. I can't speak to the past. I can tell you that <br />Eric Horvath and his team at Public Works has done a lot to become much more responsive. <br />They track every single call that comes in, every single request. There will be three new <br />curb and sidewalk programs, one of which is going to be administered by your Council <br />person, so that's the person you'd call and who would be responsible for it. I'd say that <br />I.� <br />