11-23-09 Common Council Meeting Agenda & Packet

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Area Board of Zoning Appeals -September 2, 2009 letting Notre Dame, I mean if this is going to be Notre Dame, Indiana, fine. If it's going to be Mishabend, fine. I will gladly move out of the State of Indiana. It doesn't bother me. I leave St. Joe County but I'm not doing it without a fight because that is my home and I do not like to see the Notre Dame students coming and taking over. And that's exactly what's going on. These kids don't live in your neighborhood so you don't have any idea what it's like. Here on my shirt, east side reunion. Every two or three years we have an east side reunion held over at Perley Park. We do this because we're proud of where we came from. Some of us are still here. Some of us of us have children here. Some of us have raised our children here. Some have of us have moved on. But the fact being when are we going to be a neighborhood reunion? There's not going to be an east side anymore. Let's put the neighbor back in hood. And let's stop giving to these people who are here for four years. They're here for four years and then they're gone. And they leave the destruction behind. If he's caught up and he can't leave then maybe he needs to join in and start taking your neighborhood back. Maybe that's what you need to do. Well try harder because I'm here right now to try. To stop you, because you don't know what it's like. If they let you out of your situation, who's going to let me out of mine. My situation is... SHE WAS ADDRESSING HER COMMENTS TO MR. DRAGOVICH MR. FEDDER: Just address the Board. MS. PHILLIPS: So I just hope you say no to yet another Notre Dame house. Four or five people in those homes. The parking is horrible. The noise is horrible. Let's put the neighbor back in neighborhood and not just having people coming and going and coming and going. It is realistic that, like you said yourself, we've got Eddy Street Coininons now. There are things that are coming back into the neighborhood that would probably have families that will come into the neighborhood. You don't have to move out of St. Joe County or South Bend to be somewhere where we can have a family. And I thank you. MS. MARQUERITE TAYLOR: I live at 714 E. Corby Blvd., South Bend, Indiana. And I did know Steve's parents. I am the third of five generations that lived on north Frances Street. One block from where he lives on St. Peter. It's Frances, Notre Dame and then St. Peter and we lived in the same hundred block. I currently live a block, actually two blocks from him now. I hear all the noise from the partying in that block of St. Peter. There is a lot of vacant land and then there's the houses, where it is truly party row. I am the NNRO which is the Northeast Neighborhood Revitalization Organization which is really been responsible for the Eddy Street Commons. I was there yesterday for the opening of Eddy Street. I was there today for a meeting, that the NNRO had with the partners in one of the vacant buildings. The City is coming back. The neighborhood is coming back. Steve can rent to a mother, her boyfriend and her 27 kids, and that's fine. He cannot rent it to three students. The neighborhood has worked with as far back as Roger Parent, who was our councilman to help our neighborhood come back to single families. Someone said who would have thunk it that Notre Dame Avenue would turn into what it is? That they're now moving across South Bend Avenue. I'm working with the city on an overlay district to stop these apartments from springing up. People come in from Chicago, land is really cheap in South Bend compared to what it is in other places. So we're starting to get stuff. Stuff that doesn't fit. Those three apartment building that are on South Bend Avenue. I think that's a church across the street that didn't have to get special exception because it is a church. Stuff that's spring up in our neighborhood that just doesn't fit. I lived on Corby Blvd. since 1965. I bought the house in 1965, the house is paid for. Like I said I'm the third of five generations who lived in this neighborhood. Please, please don't grant this Special Exception. Thank you. 42