08-17-01 Redevelopment Commission Minutes

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August 16, 2001 HARING, LEE AND GRDVES PROFE88IONAL ASSOCIATION ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS SUITE 502 205 WEST JEFFERSON BOULEVARD SOUTH BEND, INDIANA 46601 -1812 Donald E. Inks, Director Division of Economic Development 1200 County -City Building South Bend, Indiana 46601 -1830 Re: Verizon Wireless - Resolution No. 1843 Dear Mr. Inks: TELEPHONE (219) 232 -5923 FAX (219) 23L -5942 Please be advised that I represent Verizon Wireless, Inc. which received a notice of a public hearing on a proposed amendment to the South Bend Central Development Area development plan which involves two lots and improvements owned by Verizon Wireless, Inc. at 220 East Side of Sycamore Street and 222 East Side of Sycamore Street. Verizon Wireless, Inc. is the title owner and successor - in- interest of United Tele Spectrum of Indiana, Inc. Verizon Wireless is a company which provides South Bend and other areas with telephonic communications not requiring a direct wire connection to the broader telephone system. This `wireless' communication system is provided by, among other things, the use of towers which relay communication signals to a localized area, thereby negating the necessity for direct wire connection to an individual's telephone. These towers are fundamental to the proper working of the system. When an area lacks a tower that area, in turn, lacks the ability to have wireless communication capabilities. Verizon Wireless, Inc. has placed such a communications tower on the two lots at 220 and 222 East Side of Sycamore Street. This tower provides the downtown area of South Bend with wireless communications capabilities on the Verizon Wireless communications system The taking of these two lots, and the commensurate destruction ofthe tower, will seriously disrupt wireless phone service in the downtown area. The numerous South Bend customers of Verizon Wireless will suffer a loss that cannot be compensated. The taking of the property and the tower, without providing suitable replacement property, could virtually eliminate Verizon service to the downtown South Bend area because this tower primarily EDWARD W. HARDIG ROBERT D. LEE JAMES F. GROVES JAMES P. EHRHARD DAVID E. BALLARD OF COUNSEL August 16, 2001 HARING, LEE AND GRDVES PROFE88IONAL ASSOCIATION ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS SUITE 502 205 WEST JEFFERSON BOULEVARD SOUTH BEND, INDIANA 46601 -1812 Donald E. Inks, Director Division of Economic Development 1200 County -City Building South Bend, Indiana 46601 -1830 Re: Verizon Wireless - Resolution No. 1843 Dear Mr. Inks: TELEPHONE (219) 232 -5923 FAX (219) 23L -5942 Please be advised that I represent Verizon Wireless, Inc. which received a notice of a public hearing on a proposed amendment to the South Bend Central Development Area development plan which involves two lots and improvements owned by Verizon Wireless, Inc. at 220 East Side of Sycamore Street and 222 East Side of Sycamore Street. Verizon Wireless, Inc. is the title owner and successor - in- interest of United Tele Spectrum of Indiana, Inc. Verizon Wireless is a company which provides South Bend and other areas with telephonic communications not requiring a direct wire connection to the broader telephone system. This `wireless' communication system is provided by, among other things, the use of towers which relay communication signals to a localized area, thereby negating the necessity for direct wire connection to an individual's telephone. These towers are fundamental to the proper working of the system. When an area lacks a tower that area, in turn, lacks the ability to have wireless communication capabilities. Verizon Wireless, Inc. has placed such a communications tower on the two lots at 220 and 222 East Side of Sycamore Street. This tower provides the downtown area of South Bend with wireless communications capabilities on the Verizon Wireless communications system The taking of these two lots, and the commensurate destruction ofthe tower, will seriously disrupt wireless phone service in the downtown area. The numerous South Bend customers of Verizon Wireless will suffer a loss that cannot be compensated. The taking of the property and the tower, without providing suitable replacement property, could virtually eliminate Verizon service to the downtown South Bend area because this tower primarily