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REGULAR MEETING September 28, 2015 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Under the City of South Bend standards that is a zero foot candle, which means we can’t have any <br />light spillage over on its adjacent property. So that would also be a part of the final site plan <br />procedure. What we would ask Council to do is approve the annexation request that we are doing <br />and also approve the zoning for the CB district. What we will probably be seeing here is a <br />development in excess of 10 million dollars brought into the City of South Bend. If you have any <br />questions I would be glad to answer them. <br /> <br />Committee of the Whole Chairperson White- I’m going to start with the Council in terms of <br />questions. Then I am going to ask that our Public Works Director Eric Horvath come to the podium <br />as well. At this time, this is the opportunity to ask questions of the petitioner. <br /> <br />Councilmember Oliver Davis- Could you clarify what would happen if the spillage of lighting <br />comes into the people’s homes? I know that we have a zero rate for the city, but what happens for <br />the county houses around there? If people who live in the county happen to have problems with <br />lighting what should they do? Parking retention issues, you said that there is a difference of the <br />parking lot, could you explain that a little bit better for people to understand that. Hours of <br />operation, security, and whether Top Notch is still going to be around. The last thing, I want the <br />public works person to talk about is the rationale of why they wanted to keep Hollywood Blvd. for <br />security reasons or traffic reasons and if there is any other configuration that could be done or <br />anything else to keep traffic minimized on Hollywood Blvd. If there is an emergency wouldn’t <br />trucks be included under emergency purposes too? <br /> <br />Mr. Danch - First thing lighting, whether you are in the county or the city doesn’t make any <br />difference, the site plan has to reflect zero foot candles around the perimeter. If there is an issue <br />with lighting any of the adjacent owners if they thought that there was light spillage or some light <br />pollution coming on to their property, they could check with the City Building Department. We <br />are required to submit a plan and it shows what’s going on so that there is relief for that if they <br />believe there’s a situation. <br /> <br />The Building Department would certainly ask us or at least call us to ask to give them <br />specifications if there was a concern about a certain light fixture. They have it shown on the plan <br />that somehow someone thought that there was some spillage of the one. That would take care of <br />that part. Regarding the drainage issue, we have been dealing with the City of South Bend, we’ve <br />got the large parking area and we’ve got the building those are our impervious surfaces. We have <br />to handle the surface runoff based on the city standards which is about a two inch (2”) rainfall. <br />The distances that you have on that parking lot, most likely under that parking area you will end <br />up with some piping, you will end up with some gravel that you wrap around the pipe and that’s <br />what we call a French draining system. That will handle that surface runoff that comes off that <br />parking lot. If you have an overflow area or you’re picking up water from the building then that <br />retention area that you see at the Southwest corner of the site is where that water would go to. That <br />is not going to be a pond, that is going to be a dry pond, and we have sandy soils that are out there. <br />So that is not intended to hold water, it’s basically to handle a rain event based on the city standards. <br />So that’s how we take care of that situation again, that’s reflected on the site plan that is reviewed <br />by city engineering and approved by city engineering for capacity, routing, and the type of systems <br />that we use. <br /> <br />Councilmember Oliver Davis- Security and Hours of Operation? <br /> <br />Mr. Danch - Hours of operation are typical of Martin’s, I believe from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. is what <br />they do. Security-wise they do have a security officer in the building but also have security cameras <br />within the building itself and on the outside of the building. <br /> <br />Councilmember Oliver Davis- The last question that came for the public works director about the <br />traffic study. <br /> <br />Mr. Danch - I think we had said, I am going to let the Public Works Director talk, but one of the <br />points of having the study done for the traffic is also to allow for that study to actually reflect what <br />it is anticipated that cars would be going out on to Hollywood Blvd. So when you are taking a <br />look at a site like this when we have two-hundred and fifty (250) parking spaces all the cars are <br />not being dropped on to Hollywood Blvd. They will be going out on to Mayflower Rd. and <br />7 <br /> <br /> <br />