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South Bend Redevelopment Commission Regular Meeting — October 25, 2012 5. OLD BUSINESS (CONT.) A. South Side Development Area (1) continued... Two properties will still be affected by the widened intersection, those of the Hodges and Unruhs. Installation of a stop sign at Fellows and Teri should slow traffic through Fellows, thereby encouraging traffic to use Ireland to travel to U.S. 31 to go north. In summary, Mr. Kain noted that staff believes this solution makes Fellows less desirable as a cut - through route and encourages the use of Ireland and Michigan for traffic headed to downtown. Staff believes that Fellows can handle some additional traffic if it needs to. The stop sign at Teri will make. that intersection safer. Staff asked for Commission approval of a modified Option C -1, as described. Mr. Gilot, Board of Public Works, said that the Department of Engineering has reviewed the modified Option C -1 and supports it. He noted that his department had asked the state for the bridge at Fellows because of concerns about meeting the public safety needs of the neighborhood between Kern and the bypass. It was not their intent to transform Fellows into an arterial. Public input: Conrad Damian: 718 E. Broadway Street. I support this new proposal for all the reasons that were given by the staff. The other proposals were unbelievably harmful to the neighborhood and, I think, to the entire city. This proposal does all the things that I was prepared to tell you that you need to do. I would comment that I also think the procedures need to be more transparent. The fact that people were contacted last year about selling their homes, but it really only became a public process this year for the rest of the city is not a good way to conduct business. So, I hope that you'll be more transparent at the very beginning of any process you follow. I would also add that no mention was made of the Marathon station. I assume that there is no need to take that away. As I explored how much space there is in that intersection, you can easily add one or two right turn lanes without taking out that business. So, I would hope the plan includes leaving the Marathon station in place. The last thing I would say is if you do need to slow traffic down further on Fellows, put a stop sign at Walter Street. I am pleased to speak in favor of this new proposal. Mary MacDonald: 3827 S. Fellows. Just five houses north of Chippewa. I was thinking of moving into a community restricted to people over 55 years of age until the value of my house suddenly went to $0, if you were going to turn all the traffic at Chippewa, because I thought outside my house I would probably have room for only a waste basket. The problem with putting in too many stop signs on Fellows is that we have Monroe School 14