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South Bend Redevelopment Commission <br /> Regular Meeting—September 13, 2012 <br /> 6. NEW BUSINESS (CONT.) <br /> F. South Side Development Area <br /> (1) continued... <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 /> at requires at least three or four of the six <br /> people who were opposed to the first plan <br /> would still lose their homes!? So do we <br /> change this plan for just two or three people? <br /> Some objections have to do with the fact that <br /> we would lose the income from the property <br /> values and property taxes from those 30 <br /> homes. However the numbers do not hold <br /> with this argument. The 30 homes or so only <br /> brings in approximately $33,000 in property <br /> taxes. One commercial property, like the one <br /> that is being proposed just north or Culvers, <br /> would double the amount of property taxes <br /> the community would take in for two <br /> reasons. One commercial property brings in <br /> 38 <br />