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REGULAR MEETING February 25, 2019 to where the piles are. They're not fifty (50) feet tall like those that are over on McKinley. We would do that additional landscaping if Council would want us to, that would be fine. If there are additional questions, let us know. Councilmember Gavin Ferlic stated, I don't know what the appetite is tonight, I guess I drive by the current concrete site and I think it looks pretty well-maintained for an industrial site. And I don't know the difference between that and the site in the County. My understanding from talking to the business owners is that it is substantially different. We do have heavy industrial zoning in our City for businesses, and this is the use of the property that would employ eight (8) people. I get the sense that the Council probably would not want to approve this tonight, and if this is the case, I would encourage another continuation possibly, again, written commitments, something working with the neighborhoods to see what is acceptable. Councilmember Oliver Davis asked, One (1) of the challenges that you face over there that is different from Kuert, we created a roundabout. One(1) of the things the roundabout did was sped up traffic tremendously on Sample Street going west. It is very fast. I get my hair cut over there, I don't even like coming out of there because they're coming down so fast. It is coming off that hill. Speed and then you can look down and see everything over there. We can see it,because that side of town is the hilly side of town. Rum Village has hills and then you come off the hills, so you would literally see it. There is no way you are going to put a screen up to cover up the fact that we're going to see that hill, and it creates problems. She made a great point. You get behind one (1) of those trucks, Lord have mercy. You go that way and you're behind a truck, and you go the other way and you have a train. We're trying to fix up the noises on the south west side, because it was all of that industrial, but we've made a tremendous amount of improvement there over the last few years and we want to continue to go that way. I am glad for the roundabout, but it has really sped up the traffic, it's the speed. Coming off of that, I don't see that. Councilmember Oliver Davis made a motion to defeat Bill No. 19-01. Councilmember Karen White seconded this motion which was carried by a roll call vote of eight(8) ayes and one(1)nay (Councilmember Gavin Ferlic). 19-04 A RESOLUTION OF THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, APPROVING A PETITION OF THE AREA BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS FOR THE PROPERTY LOCATED AT 1119 LINCOLNWAY WEST Councilmember Oliver Davis made a motion to continue Bill No. 19-04 to the March 11th, 2019 meeting of the South Bend Common Council. Councilmember Gavin Ferlic seconded this motion which carried by a voice vote of nine (9) ayes. BILLS ON FIRST READING There were no bills for first(1St)reading. UNFINISHED BUSINESS There was no unfinished business. NEW BUSINESS There was no new business. PRIVILEGE OF THE FLOOR 48