No. 2348 designating boundary changes to AEDA to add SEDA, LaSalle Square and Marycrest/Hurwich

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• SUB-AREA GOALS x 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. x Improve the "edges" of this sub-area by more restrictive design/development standards, public improvements, landscaping and streetscape treatment. x Eliminate incompatible (residential) land uses within the sub-area by incremental acquisition of residential properties through purchase, donation, or tax sales. x Review, revise and enforce existing ordinances that reduce the most offensive externalities associated with the truck terminals, scrap and salvage operations. X 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 conununity with enhanced social and human services. x Acquire the White Farm complex and land bank the facility until an appropriate development opportunity and public r:aources are available to convert the site to an inner-city light industrial park. x 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 co~ulterpart 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 deterioration. The neighborhood boundaries are generally considered to be the railroad tracks (north), Main Street (east), Olive Street (west), and Ewing Avenue (south). The neighborhood is divided by State Road 23 (Prairie Avenue) which runs on a diagonal from southwest to northeast across the neighborhood. (See Map 13.) Sections of this cotYidor have developed into commercial uses and residential uses have been converted to non-residential uses. The residential street grid pattenl is also interrupted by a large area of land in the middle of the neighborhood (Donald, Swygart, Kemble, and Bruce) that is used by the Army Reserve for its training center. Indiana Avenue, running east to west across the north edge of the neighborhood, is another section of the neighborhood • an~uoi a~s~zz~~a D-27