Amending Chapter 21, Article 5, Entitled off-street parking and loading facilites, division 3.

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SUBSTITUTE BILL/ /N0.77-97 ORDINANCE NO. ~~ `1C~ ' ~7 A ORDINANCE OF THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, AMENDING VARIOUS SECTIONS WITHIN CHAPTER 21, ARTICLE 5, ENTITLED OFF-STREET PARKING AND LOADING FACILI'I'IES, DIVISION 3 OF THE SOUTH BEND MUNICIPAL CODE . STATEMENT OF PURPOSE AND INTENT The Indiana State Legislature has given to all communities the ability to enact regulations in order to prevent undue traffic congestion, which promote an orderly and efficient circulation of pedestrians and vehicles, and to develop a coordinated pazking plan. The City of South Bend believes that its current guidelines in this azea should be upgraded in the effort to provide an enlazgement to the exemption regulations specifically addressing off-street parking facilities and regulations. Through the joint efforts of the City administrative branch and the City legislative branch working together with concerned citizens, this proposed ordinance is filed in the interest of providing an additional tool to assist the City in the development and growth of the area bounded by the first north-south alley east of Niles Avenue, north to Crescent Avenue and south to Jefferson Boulevazd. This proposed ordinance is forwazded to the Area Plan Commission by a majority of the members of the South Bend Common Council for purposes of complying with the governing state law when such an ordinance is introduced by a member of the Council. 1~io~o, l:~~r~tor~, bt it or~aciix~~ b~ ~~ ~ommo~t ~Loutti>ri1 of ~~ ~it~ o~ ~Ottt.~j ~ld~ttb, ~tti~'i~tti~, as follows: SECTION I. Chapter 21, Article 5, Division 2, Section 21-89.5 entitled "East Bank Parking District Schedule" of the South Bend Municipal Code is repealed in its entirety. SECTION II. Chapter 21, Article 5, Division 3, Section 21-102 entitled "Exemption of Central Business District " of the South Bend Municipal Code shall read in its entirety as follows: Sec. 21-102 Exemption~of the Central Business District Core and the East Bank Parking District. In order to prevent undue traffic congestion in azeas of intensive business concentration and so ~ promote an orderly and efficient circulation of pedestrians and vehicles, it is necessary and reasonable that off-street parking facilities be provided in such areas only in conformity with an overall, coordinated pazking plan. To secure these objectives, no accessory off-street pazking facilities shall be required for any use in the Central Business District Core Area and the East Bank Pazking District as shown upon certain maps in the "Book of Maps" and in sections 21-104 and 21-104.5 attached hereto and included herein. Such maps shall be designated "Exempted Central Business Core Area" and "Exempted East Bank Parking District" respectively,, SECTION III. Chapter 21, Article 5, Division 3, Section 21-102.5 entitled "East Bank Pazking District Legal Description" of the South Bend Municipal Code shall read in its entirety as follows: Sec. 21-102.5. East Bank Parking District Legal Description The following area is designated as the East Bank Pazking District and is the area exempted with regard to the parking requirements as referred to in Sec. 21-102: centerline of the St. Joseph River to the point of beginnins.