No. 2456 expanding the boundaries of the Airport Economic Development Area, expanding the allocation area for purposes of tax increment financing and amending the Airport Economic Development Area Development Plan (Portage Prairie)

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contains many single family houses and fewer vacant city lots. The physical fabric of the neighborhood is intact and could serve as the basis for a neighborhood revitalization program. Once again, there are a few non-residential uses within this section of the neighborhood, but the overwhelming land use remains residential. The final one-third of the neighborhood, south of Dubail, is also overwhelmingly single family residential and very similar to the middle one-third in condition and make- up. Unlike the middle section of the neighborhood, this southern section is dominated by educational and recreational uses, including Studebaker Elementary School, Riley High School, Studebaker Park and Studebaker Golf Course. For planning purposes, the Southeast Neighborhood has been divided into three smaller sectors (See Map 6): 1. Sample-Broadway 2. Broadway-Dubail; and 3. Dubail-Ewing All of these sectors are bounded by Michigan Street on the west and the alley west of Miami Street on the east. Each of the above areas is proposed for a different type and level of public involvement. The Sample-Broadway segment will be targeted as a redevelopment area. The Broadway-Dubail segment will be targeted as a neighborhood revitalization area. The Dubail-Ewing segment will be targeted as a neighborhood improvement area. The appropriate strategy, plan and action program will be developed and implemented through a series of more detailed plans to be developed with the neighborhood planning committee. The Sample-Broadway segment will have two alternative land use plans. The preferred, optimum plan will center on the creation of an institutional-education- recreational mixed-use project for the area between Michigan Street and Fellows Street with the balance of the Sample-Broadway segment allocated for private mixed-use development. This segment will be targeted for acquisition, relocation, clearance, and site assemblage activities to create developable sites. In addition, a public improvements program, appropriate to the changing land use, will be developed and implemented. Should the optimum development plan institutional-educational-recreational fail to develop in the area north of Pennsylvania, the city and the neighborhood must be ready to move to an alternative redevelopment plan. It is suggested that this alternative is to redevelop the area as a planned unit development, including residential/commercial/light industrial and recreational uses. This light industrial and general business park of the planned unit development would be similar to the Monroe Industrial Park located north of Sample Street. A strong, well designed buffer would be •