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South Bend Redevelopment Commission Rescheduled Regular Meeting - April 13, 1989 6. NEW =INESS (Cont.) b. Cdntinued... a y doing what we have to do to serve our businesses. For your 'ormation, Commissioners, the effected dness owners are senior citizens. re is there protection? Must I be a lel citizen, a business entrepreneur, king hard and long until I am 65 and n have the younger residents and/or City to eliminate me from my .cessful way of life? And must I drop d or tear dawn my home or my business :ause of crime and drugs. South Bend .t not adopt a policy that destroys yes, businesses, because of a social blem as crime or drugs. Again we say you, Commissioners, do not accept the PP plan, but encourage them to work id in hand with the affected minority ;finesses. Thank you very much. . Nimtz: Thank you. Anyone else in F. JAY N=Z position? The Chair hears none. .lis Hughes: I just want to speak for HO=S HUGHES elf. I've heard everybody talking Yut thirty -five years. I'm Hollis hes, Sr. And I've lived on the west le for over forty years and I still ,e on the west side: 414 N. idebaker. I'm a property owner, and I Lr them talking about what's going to pen, the plans they have. I'm not posed to doing somethfing to West hington. But I've had mixed itions. And I'm just going to speak what I have mixed emotions on. I'm ng to let the rest of it go. When I r the young man over here, Newbill, ak of his business, his mother, and ley, and the old liquor store, the ern down there which is sore eyes. . that's those peoples' business. I'm ormer businessman, too. On the west e. Maybe some of you don't know thing about it. I ran a grocery re for about thirteen years. I went of business, because I wanted to go -36-