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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thoroughfares, including Sample Street, Chapin, and State Road 23; and the possibility for the development of railroad spur lines into the site. All of these factors make the White Farm complex a target of opportunity. However, given the immediate priority of the southeast development sector within the Sample-Ewing Area, this project would be undertaken at a later date. SAMPLE-INDIANA INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT SUB-AREA GOALS • Improve internal traffic circulation within this sub-area with priority given to the Olive Street-Chapin Street sector to facilitate the private development of vacant land. • Improve the "edges" of this sub-area by more restrictive design/development standards, public improvements, landscaping and streetscape treatment. • Eliminate incompatible (residential) land uses within the sub-area by incremental acquisition of residential properties through purchase, donation, or tax sales. • Review, revise and enforce existing ordinances that reduce the most offensive externalities associated with the truck terminals, scrap and salvage operations. • Assist in the conversion of the current IVY Tech facility into amixed-use service center (including both private and public uses) to serve the inner- city community with enhanced social and human services. • Acquire the White Farm complex and land bank the facility until an appropriate development opportunity and public resources are available to convert the site to an inner-city light industrial park. • Protect and enhance the physical environment for the businesses along Sample, Prairie, and Chapin Streets through limited public and streetscape improvements. E. RUM VILLAGE NEIGHBORHOOD The Rum Village Neighborhood, like its counterpart the Southeast Neighborhood, has been intimately connected to the industrial area that surrounds it. Also like its counterpart, the Rum Village Neighborhood is primarily a residential area interspersed with several commercial strips and nodes and non-residential edges. However, unlike the Southeast Neighborhood, Rum Village has not undergone the same degree of decline and 15