Approving Recommendations Concerning Need for and Proper Location of Parking Facilities

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RESOLUTION NO. I5 33-g7 A RESOLUTION OF THE SOUTH BEND COMMON COUNCIL APPROVING RECOMMENDATIONS CONCERNING NEED FOR AND PROPER LOCATION OF PARKING FACILITIES. WHEREAS, I.C. 36-9-11-4 provides that from time to time a city shall make or cause to be made surveys and studies necessary to determine the need for and proper location of parking facilities, giving due consideration to the free and safe movement of traffic, the terminal points and concentration of traffic, and the adequacy of privately owned parking lots or structures; and WHEREAS, I .C. 36-9-11-4 further provides that on the basis of such surveys and studies, recommendations shall be made to the Board of Public Safety and the Common Council concerning the general location, size, and character of and probable cost of acquiring and developing needed parking facilities; and WHEREAS, the South Bend Common Council has had presented to it at its regular meeting of September 14, 1987, information from surveys and studies conducted by the South Bend Department of Economic Development and the Michiana Area Council of Governments concerning the need for and proper location of parking facilities in the central downtown area of the City of South Bend; and WHEREAS, those surveys and studies gave due consideration to the free and safe movement of traffic, the terminal points and concentration of traffic, and the adequacy of privately owned parking lots or structures, as well as the adequacy of publicly owned parking lots or structures; and WHEREAS, the South Bend Common Council has duly considered information from surveys and studies conducted by the South Bend Department of Economic Development and the Michiana Area Council of Governments concerning the need for and proper location of parking facilities in the central downtown area of the City of South Bend; and WHEREAS, at its regular meeting held September 9, 1987, the South Bend Board of Public Safety adopted a resolution approving recommendations of the South Bend Department of Economic Development and the Michiana Area Council of Governments concerning the general location, size, character of, and probable cost of acquiring and developing a certain needed parking facility in the central downtown area of the City of South Bend; and WHEREAS, the South Bend Board of Public Safety has submitted those recommendations to the South Bend Common Council for acceptance or rejection pursuant to I.C. 36-9-11-4; and WHEREAS, the South Bend Common Council has thoroughly reviewed and considered the recommendations submitted to it by the South Bend Board of Public Safety in its Resolution No. 9-1987, adopted by the Board September 9, 1987 . NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the South Bend Common Council as follows: Section 1. The recommendation of the South Bend Board of Public Safety that a parking structure be constructed at the northwest corner of East Wayne Street and South St. Joseph Street in the central downtown area of the City of South Bend, with construction to begin in early 1988, and the parking structure consisting of approximately 440 parking spaces is hereby accepted and approved.