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1400 CouNv-CrrY BUILDING <br />227 W JEFFERSON BOULEVARD <br />SOUTH BEND, INDIANA 46601 -1830 <br />CHARLES S. LEONE <br />CITYATTORNEY <br />CITY OF SOUTH BEND STEPHEN J. LUECKE, MAYOR <br />DEPARTMENT OF ]LAW <br />Rev. Timothy Rouse, President <br />South Bend Common Council <br />455 County -City Building <br />South Bend, IN 46601 <br />PHONE 574/ 235 -9241 <br />FAx 574/235 -9892 <br />TDD 574/ 235 -5567 <br />ALADEAN M. DERoSE <br />CHIEF ASSISTANT CITY ATTORNEY <br />October 16, 2007 <br />-6 . -� �-o� <br />RE: An Ordinance of the Common Council of the City of South Bend, <br />Indiana, Amending Chapter 4, Article IV, Section 4 -30, of the South <br />Bend Municipal Code <br />Dear Council President Rouse: <br />Attached for filing with the Common Council is an ordinance which creates operating <br />standards for hotels and motels (collectively "hotels ") in the City of South Bend. <br />The concepts for the ordinance grew out of the occurrences last spring at the Wooden <br />Indian Motel, and we believe the proposed standards imposed on South Bend's hotel industry <br />will reduce the problems caused by the few establishments generating most of the public safety <br />personnel responses. <br />As you will see, the ordinance uses a 3 -tier classification system based on police calls for <br />service (CFS). This is an approach suggested in a study published by the U.S. Department of <br />Justice titled "Disorder at Budget Motels" by Karin Schmerler, U.S. Department of Justice, <br />Problem- Oriented Guides for Police Problems — Specific Guide Series No. 30. <br />The intention of the ordinance is to impose minimum requirements upon well managed, <br />trouble free hotels, and to require the problematic hotels to take action designed to reduce crime <br />and violence on their premises. <br />The South Bend Police Department conducted a preliminary CFS assessment of all local <br />hotels, and found that if these remain the same, most South Bend hotels would fall in the Tier #1 <br />category; one would fall in the Tier #2 moderately regulated category; and two hotels, including <br />the Wooden Indian, would fall in the most regulated Tier #3 category., <br />THOMAS L. BODNAR CHERYL A. GREENE .ANN -CAROL NASH <br />JEFFREY M. JANKOWSKI SHAWN E. PETERSON JEFFREY L. SANFORD JOHN E. BRODEN <br />