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REGULAR MEETING OCTOBER 24, 2016 Councilmember Oliver Davis made a motion to continue Bill 53 -16 until November 28th, 2016. Councilmember Regina Williams- Preston seconded the motion which carried by a voice vote of nine (9) ayes. 54 -16 PUBLIC HEARING ON AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE ZONING ORDINANCE FOR PROPERTY LOCATED AT 1037 ELMER STREET, COUNCILMANIC DISTRICT NO.2 IN THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA Councilmember Oliver Davis made a motion to continue Bill 54 -16 until November 14th, 2016. Councilmember Dr. David Varner seconded the motion which carried by a voice vote of nine (9) ayes. 60 -16 PUBLIC HEARING ON AN ORDINANCE TO VACATE THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED PROPERTY: THE FIRST NORTH -SOUTH ALLEY LYING WEST OF PORTAGE AVENUE, BOUNDED ON THE NORTH BY THE SOUTH RIGHT -OF -WAY LINE OF BULLA STREET AND BOUNDED ON THE SOUTH BY THE NORTH RIGHT -OF -WAY LINE OF THE FIRST EAST - WEST ALLEY NORTH OF KING STREET IN PORTAGE TOWNSHIP Councilmember Regina Williams- Preston made a motion to continue Bill 60 -16 until November 14th, 2016. Councilmember Dr. David Varner seconded the motion which carried by a voice vote of nine (9) ayes. 48 -16 PUBLIC HEARING ON AN ORDINANCE OF THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA REPEALING CERTAIN SECTIONS OF CHAPTER 17, ARTICLE 10 REGARDING COMPACT FEES AND ASSESSMENTS AND REPLACING SUCH FEES AND ASSESSMENTS WITH SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT CHARGES Councilmember Oliver Davis made a motion to accept Substitute Bill 48 -16. Councilmember Karen White seconded the motion which carried by a voice vote of nine (9) ayes. Councilmember Dr. David Varner, Chair of the Utilities Committee, reported that they met and send this forward with a favorable recommendation as currently filed. Eric Horvath, Public Works Director with offices on the 13th Floor of the County -City Building, served as the presenter and petitioner of this bill. This is an ordinance that we had in place for many years that had compact fees and assessment fees that were inconsistently applied over the years. This caused us to review that section of the Code and reevaluate them. We submitted a draft ordinance a couple of months back for the Council to look at. Since then we have had a number of meetings both with the Council and outside parties. He thanked the Council, the Chamber of Commerce, St. Joseph County homebuilders and developers, and the Town of New Carlisle who all came together in multiple meetings to give input. We tried to make a better ordinance and hopefully this ordinance is reflective of the input and comments we received over the last couple of months. The ordinance eliminates all assessment fees that were on the previous books and replaces them with a system development charge which is computed on an equity method. That should be a more appropriate charge for water. That system development charge is $500 per equivalent residential unit. For sewer it is $1,145 per equivalent residential unit. This ordinance also A