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CITY OF SOUTH BEND OFFICE OF THE CLERK Councilmember Jake Teshka arrived at the meeting at 4:32 p.m. Ms. Smith continued, It is currently zoned C, Commercial subject to a site plan in the County so it has only been allowed to be used as a financial institution.There is very little wiggle room there plus the use of the City services made it appropriate to be annexed in. We appreciate you guys meeting with us this evening to keep this moving. This (referencing a picture on a slide of the presentation)is the bank as it looked well over a year ago as we have been working on this project for that long. Again, from the corner you can see there is the new daycare center in the back there. The site hasn't changed much. The site plan that is on the screen here is what was proposed to the Area Plan Commission and what the recommendation was based on. There were concerns at that point about setback issues, landscaping, access points and with all those concerns, it came to the Council from the Area Plan Commission with an unfavorable recommendation. I believe the site plan has changed since then and the petitioner can talk a little bit more about that. Committee Chair Davis asked, When the siteplan has that manychanges, it does not go to Area Plan again, it comes directly here, right? Ms. Smith replied, Correct, it does not have to go back. If for some reason they weren't able to meet any of the development standards, they have the option to go to the Area Board of Zoning Appeals after the zoning passes, but it does not have to go back to the Area Plan Commission for anything. Stephen Studer, Partner with Krieg Devault with offices located at 4101 Edison Lakes Parkway, stated, Here are some handouts(which are available in the City Clerk's Office). I will be happy to go over the changes and I apologize for the overkill,but we want to make sure that Council has all the information. Right now, this property was the Old National Bank building. It was sold with a deed restriction so there could be no other uses other than a bank. It has been vacant since 2017. Right now it is in the County and is zoned C, Commercial. We would like to bring it into the City as CB and have it annexed. With me are Mr. Brian McMorrow with Abenmarch Consultants and then Mr. Patel and Mr. Singh, the owners of the property. They are doing another project within the City as well. One (1) of the things I would like to note is, if you've been by the site, you've noticed it has been vacant since 2017 but it's always mowed and the landscape has always been kept up even through it has been vacant. So we did meet with Councilmember Davis and Broden. There were some concerns about the access.We move this access down here(referencing a picture on a slide in the presentation). The new site plan has moved this another sixty (60) feet to give additional sight. We are not asking for any variances. We did have five (5) neighbors that spoke out against this at the Area Plan Commission. One (1) of those was from North Liberty. Another one(1)owned a competitive C-Store.The other three(3)we talked to and they have indicated they have no issue with the project going forward so long as we weren't asking for a lot of variances that were going to make the character of the neighborhood different. Committeemember Jo M. Broden arrived at the meeting at 4:35 p.m. Mr. Studer continued,We aren't asking for any variances. Each of you have a book here(of which copies are available in the City Clerk's Office) and I would be happy to walk you through the key facts. I will point out that we have also entered into commitments with the City and those follow. One (1) of the concerns that Area Plan had at the time we had entered into the commitments, we EXCELLENCE ACCOUNTABILITY INNOVATION I INCLUSION I EMPOWERMENT 455 County-City Building 227W.Jefferson Bvld South Bend,Indiana 46601 p574235.9221 f574.235.9173 I ID574.235.5567 www.southbendin.gov 2