HomeMy WebLinkAboutApproving Recommendations Concerning Need for and Proper Location of Parking Facilities RESOLUTION
NO. 1533-87
Passed by the Common Council of the City of South Bend, Indiana,
September 14, 19 87
Attest: City Clerk
Attest: / Ib / President of Common Council.liekt
Presented by me to the Mayor of the City of South Bend, Indiana
September 15, 19 87
City Clerk
Approved and signed by me .SEPTE714 S€1 15 19 87 .
Mayor
RESOLUTION NO. I5 33-g7
A RESOLUTION OF THE SOUTH BEND COMMON COUNCIL
APPROVING RECOMMENDATIONS CONCERNING NEED FOR
AND PROPER LOCATION OF PARKING FACILITIES.
WHEREAS, I.C. 36-9-11-4 provides that from time to time a city
shall make or cause to be made surveys and studies necessary to
determine the need for and proper location of parking facilities,
giving due consideration to the free and safe movement of traffic, the
terminal points and concentration of traffic, and the adequacy of
privately owned parking lots or structures; and
WHEREAS, I .C. 36-9-11-4 further provides that on the basis of such
surveys and studies, recommendations shall be made to the Board of
Public Safety and the Common Council concerning the general location,
size, and character of and probable cost of acquiring and developing
needed parking facilities; and
WHEREAS, the South Bend Common Council has had presented to it at
its regular meeting of September 14, 1987, information from surveys and
studies conducted by the South Bend Department of Economic Development
and the Michiana Area Council of Governments concerning the need for
and proper location of parking facilities in the central downtown area
of the City of South Bend; and
WHEREAS, those surveys and studies gave due consideration to the
free and safe movement of traffic, the terminal points and
concentration of traffic, and the adequacy of privately owned parking
lots or structures, as well as the adequacy of publicly owned parking
lots or structures; and
WHEREAS, the South Bend Common Council has duly considered
information from surveys and studies conducted by the South Bend
Department of Economic Development and the Michiana Area Council of
Governments concerning the need for and proper location of parking
facilities in the central downtown area of the City of South Bend; and
WHEREAS, at its regular meeting held September 9, 1987, the South
Bend Board of Public Safety adopted a resolution approving
recommendations of the South Bend Department of Economic Development
and the Michiana Area Council of Governments concerning the general
location, size, character of, and probable cost of acquiring and
developing a certain needed parking facility in the central downtown
area of the City of South Bend; and
WHEREAS, the South Bend Board of Public Safety has submitted those
recommendations to the South Bend Common Council for acceptance or
rejection pursuant to I.C. 36-9-11-4; and
WHEREAS, the South Bend Common Council has thoroughly reviewed and
considered the recommendations submitted to it by the South Bend Board
of Public Safety in its Resolution No. 9-1987, adopted by the Board
September 9, 1987 .
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the South Bend Common Council as
follows:
Section 1. The recommendation of the South Bend Board of Public
Safety that a parking structure be constructed at the northwest corner
of East Wayne Street and South St. Joseph Street in the central
downtown area of the City of South Bend, with construction to begin in
early 1988, and the parking structure consisting of approximately 440
parking spaces is hereby accepted and approved.
Section 2 . The recommendation of the South Bend Board of Public
Safety that the parking structure described in paragraph 1 hereof be
acquired and developed pursuant to the design recommendations of Walker
Parking Consultants, Inc. , at a cost of approximately $3 ,600,000, is
hereby accepted and approved.
Section 3 . The South Bend Board of Public Works is hereby
authorized to proceed as provided by I.C. 36-9-11-1, et seq. in
accordance with this resolution.
Section 4. Pursuant to I .C. 36-9-11-8 (d) the South Bend Board of
Public Works is hereby authorized to use for the parking structures
pursuant to this resolution land previously acquired by the South Bend
Redevelopment Commission, not needed for other purposes, located on the
northwest corner of East Wayne Street and South St. Joseph Street, more
particularly described as follows:
A part of the Northwest Quarter of Section 12,
Township 37 North, Range 2 East of the Second
Principal Meridian, Portage Township, City of
South Bend, Indiana being a part of Lots Fifty
( 50) , and Fifty-one ( 51) and Fifty-two (52) of
the Original Plat of South Bend, Indiana more
particularly described as follows: Beginning
at the intersection of the Westerly
right-of-way line of St. Joseph Street (85 foot
right-of-way) with the North right-of-way line
of Wayne Street ( 82. 5 foot right-of-way) ,
thence South 89°38 ' 12" West (bearing assumed)
along the North right-of-way line of Wayne
Street 148 .84 feet; thence North 00°27 ' 00"
West, 186.00 feet; thence North 89°39 ' 34" East,
165 .61 feet; thence Southwesterly 186. 99 feet
along a segment of a curve to the right having
a radius of 912. 43 feet, subtended by a chord
having a bearing of South 04°42 ' 19" West and a
length of 186. 66 feet to the point of
beginning.
Section 5. This resolution shall be in full force and effect from
and after its passage by the Common Council and approval by the Mayor.
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