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00°-%:, <br /> o <br /> Common Council <br /> City of South Bend Indiana <br /> Henry Davis,Jr.,2nd District Council Member <br /> 4th Floor County-City Building <br /> 227 West Jefferson Boulevard <br /> South Bend,Indiana 46601 <br /> (574)235-5983 (574)235-9173 Facsimile <br /> (574)235-5567 TTY/TDD <br /> November 13, 2015 <br /> The South Bend Common Council <br /> 4th Floor County-City Building <br /> South Bend, Indiana 46601 Re: "Mow to Own"Resolution <br /> Dear Council Members: <br /> During my eight (8) years of service on the Common Council, I have championed many causes <br /> and programs to help improve the quality of life and employment in our City. I have always been <br /> an advocate and voice for the residents of the 2nd District during my two (2) terms of office. <br /> Unfortunately the 2nd District has far too many vacant and abandoned structures. Many of those <br /> structures have been demolished, and those properties then became the focus of ongoing <br /> complaints of the trash, tall grass and weeds. I am therefore, introducing the attached Resolution, <br /> and I ask my fellow Council Members to review, discuss and adopt it enthusiastically and <br /> unanimously. It asks for leaders at the local and state level to collaborate together for the purpose <br /> of creating an effective"Mow to Own"program in the City of South Bend. <br /> I have attached the resolution and the ordinance from Memphis, Tennessee, as a program which <br /> should be carefully studied. Memphis had 3,500 vacant lots in their county land bank system with <br /> 97% of those being within the city limits of Memphis. Their program may be a viable roadmap <br /> for the development of a similar program here. If new state regulations are needed, we need to <br /> engage our state senators and state representatives to remove potential obstacles. <br /> I request that the proposed Resolution and the Memphis documents be carefully studied and heard <br /> in the Council's Health and Public Safety Committee. I urge you to be pro-active and join me on <br /> this proposed initiative. Thank you. <br /> Most s. ely, <br /> lir.i F° „�, CIP!l 's Offoc <br /> �i, ►,avis, Jr. retlaa �,. <br /> nd District Council Member <br /> ; tiV 16 Z015 <br /> € iC,sOU H <br /> CITY CLE BEND, <br />