09-28-15 Common Council Meeting Minutes

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REGULAR MEETING September 28, 2015 The area plan commission sends this to you with a favorable recommendation. At this time I’d be happy to answer any questions. Committee of the Whole Chairperson White asked for questions from the committee. Councilmember Valerie Schey- My questions for you are twofold, the annexation of this parcel do we as a City already have water and sewer in the vicinity. Mr. Chappuies: Yes we do. They will be connecting as part of the annexation process. Councilmember Valerie Schey- Will we be just running from the main valve, is that convenient? Mr. Chappuies: I can’t answer that. I believe that the petitioner may touch on that a little bit. However there will be a presentation on the annexation process and that will be later this evening by Mike Divita and I believe he’s here to answer those technical issue questions of what the City will be investing in. Councilmember Valerie Schey- The other question I had is I learned with some developments in rd the 3 District, the promise of the buffer, the bushes, there have been some businesses in the third that haven’t upheld their commitment to putting the buffers, the tree buffer in. Is there any sort of written commitment in this site plan that those trees will in fact be planted? Area Plan Presenter: Yes there is. They are part of the variances that were approved by Area Plan Commission. What you see on the screen and what I described as well is required as part of this bill passing. Councilmember Oliver Davis- First of all the traffic, could you talk about the traffic study? There is a great concern regarding adding more traffic on the corner of Western Ave and Mayflower. Mr. Chappuies: I do understand that that is a concern and I am aware the city is requiring the developer to pay for a traffic analysis. However, the details of that I will leave that up to the petitioner as well as the department of community investment. Councilmember Oliver Davis- Also I would like for you or the petitioner to talk about the Hollywood Blvd. traffic and rationale of why that back entrance has to remain open. Is there any other consideration for that to be closed? Could you shed some light on that topic? Area Plan Presenter: It is my understanding that city engineering requested that access remain on Hollywood Blvd. for access for emergency vehicles and evacuation, things of that nature. Councilmember Oliver Davis- Is there anyone from City Engineering who can present on that? I asked for them to be here tonight. I really needed that to be coming from a city engineer. A lot of residents have asked me about that. We’ve had meetings about that. That was a key thing and their public works director heard about that this afternoon. Those officials are here now? Thank God. I appreciate it. I had a lot of issues about that coming up. Does he want to talk about that now or does he want to talk about that then, after the petitioner? We’re going to hear from our public works. I have questions for him regarding those matters. We’ll have questions with the public works director so he can address all the Hollywood Blvd. issues and to see if there is any possibility of any leeway on that. And say if that we can have our emergency routes come in there without having to cause traffic problems for our neighbors. And yet Martin’s can still move forward with their proposal. That’s what I’m hoping to hear at the end of this. Committee of the Whole Chairperson White- Thank you very much. Thank you for your presentation. We ask that the petitioner come forward. State your name and address. I would also like for a city representative to be ready to respond to some the questions that were addressed earlier this afternoon. Mike Danch (Danch and Danch) South Bend, Indiana- As Matthew had mentioned what we are asking to do are two things this evening. The first one is we are asking this property to be annexed into the City of South Bend. As Matthew had mentioned the property right now is in the 4