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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community. Poor soil conditions found in the Rum Village Industrial Park are also resent in P the Sample-Indiana industrial corridor. The muck lands and water table conditions run from the Rum Village Industrial Park on a diagonal from southwest to northeast into this sub-area. Trucking and heavy industrial uses found on the west side of Olive Street also continue into this sub-area. Moving east through the corridor into the Walnut Street-Prairie Avenue sector, the land uses remain the same with large parcels of land devoted to heavier industrial uses, including scrap and salvage yards, warehouse/distribution and wholesalers. Given the type of land uses and the fact that every community needs sections devoted to heavier industries and economic activities that might not match uses within planned industrial and business parks, it is suggested that this area's predominant land use and economic activity remain the same. The sub-area strategy would focus on creating and improving the edges and boundaries of this corridor to protect and screen the adjoining areas. Other elements of the strategy include: improving the internal circulation system by upgrading the street system; removing incompatible land uses; creating incentives or using the police powers of the community to stimulate business and property owners to clean up the worst areas of their land; developing more stringent standards for screening, hours of operation and mitigating the most obnoxious externalities from scrap, salvage, trucking and related activities. Two sites within this sub-area warrant additional discussion. The first site is the existing Indiana Vocational-Technical College on the 1500 block of West Sample. The second site is the former White Farm manufacturing complex located on Chapin Street. The vocational-technical college's existing facility and site is inadequate for the community's needs. Anew campus is being considered for atwenty-five acre site in the Southeast Neighborhood. Should this plan come to fruition, the adaptive re-use of the current facility and site will become an important element in the planning for this sub- area. The White Farm industrial site within this sub-area contains thirty-five (35) acres and fronts on Chapin Street. This former manufacturing complex has approximately 900,000 square feet of manufacturing, warehouse, and office space in a number of buildings. Only two of the buildings could be considered economically and physically viable for purposes of adaptive re-use. These two buildings include the office space currently housing the County Department of Welfare and a 290,000 square foot, five- story warehouse facility. Any plan for the re-use of the complex would require the acquisition and clearance of much of the site. New infrastructure and a revised circulation plan would be required to redevelop the site as an inner-city light industrial area (similar to the Monroe Industrial Park). However, the site has some significant advantages, assuming there are no significant environmental problems. These positives include a central location within the Urban Enterprise Zone; good access to main 14