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South Bend Redevelopment Commission <br /> Regular Meeting—September 13, 2012 <br /> in 2012. I just returned from church that we <br /> go to out by the airport. We live on the south <br /> side of South Bend. Because of the MDA <br /> ride, and the fact that the bypass was closed <br /> from 12 to 3 o'clock on Sunday, September <br /> 2, 2012, we needed to drive down Ireland <br /> Road all away to Miami in order to get to our <br /> home in Miami trails. This brought to mind <br /> what is going to happen when the bypass <br /> dumps the traffic northbound on Ireland <br /> Road. I was shocked to find out the traffic <br /> on Ireland Road was backed up all the way <br /> down to the light going in the Menard's. It <br /> was barely moving. This was just a small <br /> sampling of what's going to happen if we do <br /> not do something with the Fellows Street <br /> project. <br /> You may recall that one person at the <br /> meetings stood to tell you about when they <br /> were displaced in the airport expansion <br /> project. That someone was me. My name is <br /> Jim Goepfrich. I am the property owner at <br /> 4036 S. Fellows. As I mentioned in the <br /> meeting even though this may be very much <br /> of a problem for those residents that have to <br /> lose their houses the overall advantages to <br /> South Bend and its future is undeniably <br /> needed. The good of the few cannot <br /> outweigh the good of the whole. <br /> Let's look at what is been discussed and what <br /> some of the plans are that are being batted <br /> around now. First the original plan was to <br /> take out somewhere between 28 and 30 <br /> homes along South Fellows as well as by <br /> Chippewa. Other residents who spoke, to my <br /> knowledge, there are six individuals that do <br /> not want to use this plan because they do not <br /> want to move. So the engineering <br /> department was told to go back and look at a <br /> separate plan. But every other plan they look <br /> 33 <br />