05-29-12 Common Council Meeting Minutes

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REGULAR MEETING MAY 29, 2012 drainage plan, within three (3) years of the effective date of the annexation in the same manner as those services are provided to areas within the corporate boundaries of the City of South Bend regardless of similar topography, patterns of land use, or population density. Section III. The South Bend Common Council, shall and does hereby now establish and adopt the Fiscal Plan, attached hereto as Exhibit “A”, and made a part hereof, for the furnishing of said services to the territory to be annexed, which provides, among other things, that the public sanitary sewer and water network is available with capacity sufficient to service this area with fees for prior main line extensions due upon application for a tap permit and any improvements in sewer or water capacity to be paid by the developer in compliance with State and Local law; that no additional street lighting will be necessary; and that no new roads or streets will be required with the existing boundary streets of Terrace Lane and Dunn Road to be maintained by County and City under a mutually agreeable plan. Section IV. It is a further condition of annexation that any future alterations to the property meet the City of South Bend’s building and zoning regulations and requirements. Section V. This Resolution shall be effective from and of the date of adoption by the Common Council and approval by the Mayor. s/Derek D. Dieter Member of the Common Council Councilmember Oliver Davis, Chairperson, Zoning & Annexation Committee, reported that this Committee met this afternoon on this bill and voted to send it to the full Council with a favorable annexation. th Michael Divita, Planner, Community & Economic Department, 12 Floor County-City Building, 227 W. Jefferson Blvd., South Bend, Indiana, made the presentation for this bill. Mr. Divita summarized the fiscal plan. He stated that the fiscal plan addresses a .75 acre voluntary annexation area at 17210 Douglas Road which is east of S.R. 23. It meets the State Law contiguity requirement. No capital improvements are planned as part of the annexation. Sewer and water are available along Douglas Road and any connection to be done will be at the petitioner’s expense. The adjoining potion of Douglas Road is already within the City Limits and no additional street construction is anticipated. No residents th live within the annexation area which would be in the Common Council’s 4 District. The annexation area will be served by Police beat #11; Fire station #3; EMS Medic #3; and Code Enforcement Area #4. These and other non-capital services will be in place within one year of the effective date of the annexation with response times comparably to other areas of the city. Mr. Divita asked for the Council favorable adoption of this Resolution. Councilmember Oliver Davis asked how an annexation cannot be a hardship on various city departments like police and fire. He stated that they are going to be in negotiations with police and fire and this is one point that will be brought up. Mr. Divita stated that answer comes from the Police and Fire Departments Administrations. The fiscal plan is a compellation of information from those various departments. So, the police and fire administration review those versus what the service needs are and what the capabilities are. Most of the recent annexations you have seen have been pretty small, this is again a single parcel with ¾ acres, so the service needs would be relatively. He stated that it is true that over time there is an aggregate nature to them as added to, so in those cases, especially in the Police Department to look at the beats and as population shifts within the city or a crime pattern shift that would be their responsibility to adjust service accordingly. 15