No. 2350 amending the Northeast Neighborhood Development Area Development Plan to establish a housing program

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EXHIBIT B • FINDINGS OF FACT All findings in the original Declaratory Resolution No. 2016, adopted by the South Bend Redevelopment Commission, on November 17, 2003, as amended (the "Declaratory Resolution"), shall remain, unless otherwise found to be inconsistent with the findings as provided herein. In accordance with IC 36-7-14 et. sew. (the "Act"), the following additional findings are hereby made, which relate to the Amendment to the Northeast Neighborhood Development Area Development Plan (the "Plan Amendment") creating the Northeast Neighborhood Development Area Housing Program (the "Housing Program") and the Northeast Neighborhood Development Area, Allocation Area #2 ("Allocation Area No. 2"), within the Northeast Neighborhood Development Area (the "Area"), pursuant to Resolution No. 2344, adopted by the Commission of the City on June 19, 2007 (the "Resolution"): 1. The Resolution and the Area Development Plan (the "Development Plan"), with the proposed Plan Amendment, conform to the comprehensive plan of the City including other development and redevelopment plans for the City, and the Plan Amendment is reasonable and appropriate when considered in relation to the Declaratory Resolution, the Development Plan and purposes of the Act. 2. Not more than twenty-five (25) acres of the area included in Allocation Area No. 2 has been annexed during the preceding five (5) years. A total of approximately 11 acres of the total 58 acre area in Allocation Area No. 2 has been annexed into the City in the past five (S) years. 3. No area within Allocation Area No. 2 has been annexed within the preceding five (5) years over a remonstrance of a majority of the owners of land within the annexed area. 4. The Plan Amendment and Housing Program cannot be accomplished by regulatory processes or by the ordinary operation of private enterprise because of: (A) the lack of public improvements; While the area, in which the Housing Program will be located, is served by public roadways and utilities, the general conditions of the infrastructure are not at a general level considered as acceptable within the City. (B) the existence of improvements or conditions that lower the value of the land below that of nearby land; or There are a variety of blighting factors within and adjacent to this area, in which the Housing Program will be located, that have and are still causing the decline of this redevelopment area. (C) other similar conditions. In addition to the variety of physically blighting factors in this area, in which the Housing Program will be located, the area is replete with a variety of similar blighting social and economic factors that continue to decline this area. B-1 BDDBOI 4803756v2