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2007 Annual Report
of the Community and Economic Development Committee
of the South Bend Common Council
Date: December 10, 2007
To: The South Bend Common Council
The Office of the City Clerk
From: 1St District Council Member Derek Dieter, Chairperson
Community and Economic Development Committee
I am pleased to file the following 2007 Annual Report of the activities of the Council's
Community and Economic Committee which is required by § 2-10 (i) of the South Bend
Municipal Code. As each of you will recall, the Community and Economic Development
Committee is charged with:
"Overseeing the various activities of the Department of Community and Economic Development and
programs directed by the Division of Community Development, Division of Economic Development and Financial
and Program Management "pursuant to § 2-10 (i) (2) of the South Bend Municipal Code.
There were four (4) Council Members on this Committee, namely: Randy Kelly who served as
Vice-Chairperson, and Ann Puzzello and Karen L. White as Members, and myself as Chair.
Professor Martin Wolfson of the University of Notre Dame and Phil Panczica of Panzica
Building Corporation provided valuable insights as our citizen member.
The Community and Economic Development Committee was one of the more active
standing committees with twenty-two (22) meetings being held. The bulk of the
Committee meetings focused on various types of tax abatement requests, appropriation
requests, updates on DTSB, Inc., Project Future, formally establishing the "Dollar House
Program", as well as continuing discussion of our local tax abatement procedures. Tax
abatement requests included discussions on the following:
• Tax Abatement requests heard in chronological order for:
4440 North Portage Road (1St District) for South Bend Clinic
Various addresses for Kendall-Weiss, LLP
920 St. Peter Street for Jill R. Bodensteiner
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December 10, 2007
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1017 Notre Dame Avenue for Don & Sara Pope
5733 Hawkins Court for Amy J. Billhimer
511 East Colfax & 210 N. Niles Avenue for Odyssian Technology
Various addresses Oak Court for SFULDI Partnership
4701 Nimtz Parway for Schaefer Gear Works, Inc.
Parairie Avenue/Locust Road for Prairie Apartments Housing Partners, LP
211 North Eddy. Street for the South Bend Clinic
129 North Michigan (Trio's Restaurant) for MHM Realty, LLC
Real and personal property for Odyssian Technology
1328 S. 32nd Street for Dan Goller
Various addresses on Carlisle Street/Colfax Ave./Walnut/Jefferson for Habitat for
Humanity
1329 32nd Street for Dan Goller
1840 N. Commerce Drive for Stanz Foot Service, Inc.
3702 Progress for Parrish/Meyer Machine, Inc.
6097 US 31 South for Ranjan J. Amin
3111 Corby Blvd for J. Patrick & Aimee G. Matthews
202 S. Michigan for Key SB, LLC, the Hinman Company
5855 Carbonmill Drive for GWSB Properties, LLC
840 United Drive for Nelson Dee, LLC
624 North Notre Dame Avenue for Notre Dame Avenue LLC
2629 Foundation Drive for Value Productions Inc.
220 West Colfax for Colfax Place Associates
2722 Tucker Drive for Steel Warehouse Company LLC
1400 W. Riverside Drive for Steel Warehouse Company, LLC
1217 and 1215 South Walnut for Steel Warehouse Company LLC
3722 Foundation Drive for Imagineering Enterpirses, Inc.
2500 Green Tech Drive for Mother Earth, LLC
2500 Green Tech Drive for Green Tech Transfer & Recycling LLC
Various addresses on Notre Dame Avenue & Wayne Street for Kendall Weiss
1247 Howard Street for Habitat for Humanity
Various addresses on Stewart Drive, Vawter Circle, Lutz Drive for Kendall-Weiss, LLP
101 S. Iowa Street for Jonathan Burkholder
• Meetings, discussions and formal recommendation on Council Member Pfeifer's
recommendation for the expansion of the Airport TIF District to include LaSalle Square
• NEW language is now being incorporated into the Memorandum of Agreements (MOA)
dealing with the Circuit Breaker to financial project the city
Pursuant to Section 2-84.16 of the South Bend Municipal Code which calls for a review of our
local procedures addressing tax abatement in years which end with an even number, calendar
2007 Annual Report of the Community and Economic Development Committee
December 10, 2007
Page 3
year 2008 will be a year to continue discussions and dialogues to identify if there should be any
amendments made to Article 6 of Chapter 2 of the South Bend Municipal Code where the tax
abatement regulations are codified.
I would again like to thank all members of the Committee, the rest of the Council and the City
Administration for all of their efforts throughout 2007 in the many review of documents which
have come before the CED Committee. As a result of this Committee's action and that of the
South Bend Common Council, ordinances have been passed which have created many new jobs,
retained current full-time jobs and spurred the building of new homes throughout the city.
I look forward to continuing to work with Interim Director Jeff Gibney as we challenge each
other to find new ways to attract businesses and developers to make South Bend their city of
choice.
Respec lly submitte
Council Member Derek Teter, Chairperson
Community and Economic Development Committee
cc: Mayor Stephen Luecke
Jeff Gibney, Interim Director
Department of Community and Economic Development
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