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REGULAR MEETING AUGUST 10, 2009 Councilmember Puzzello asked if this project would have to go before the Board of Zoning Appeals. Mr. Feeney stated no. This being the time heretofore set for the Public Hearing on the above bill, proponents and opponents were given an opportunity to be heard. There being no one present wishing to speak to the Council either in favor of the or in opposition to this bill, Councilmember Dieter made a motion for favorable recommendation to full Council concerning this bill subject to the two (2) written commitments read into the record by Mr. Feeney. Councilmember White seconded the motion which carried by a voice vote of seven (7) ayes. Councilmember Puzzello stated that as the Council Representative to the Area Plan Commission, she voted against this petition, because it is invasive into that neighborhood. She stated that she always is concerned when a business starts into a neighborhood it will keep moving and has a tendency to do that. She noted that the neighbors were in favor because of the two homes that now exit there had become in very bad condition, they worried that they would only get worse and preferred a new building to these houses that were in such bad condition. Councilmember Puzzello criticized Mr. Mihalach for allowing those homes to deteriorate. She stated that she understands what he wanted to do with those two homes when he purchased them, but he bought two houses and until he got his zoning, she wished that he would have taken better care of them, but he did not. She stated that when neighborhood rezonings are concerned, she stated that she tends to vote with the neighborhood and the neighborhood is in favor and she will be voting with the neighborhood and just wanted to go on record tonight because she did vote against this once. BILL NO. 53-09 PUBLIC HEARING ON A BILL OF THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, AMENDING VARIOUS SECTIONS OF CHAPTER 14 ARTICLE 9 OF THE SOUTH BEND MUNICIPAL CODE ENTITLED “REGULATIONS ADDRESSING SPECIAL EVENTS IN RESIDENTIALLY ZONED AREAS” Councilmember White, Chairperson, Health and Public Safety Committee, reported that this committee held a Public Hearing on this bill this afternoon and voted to send it to the full Council with a favorable recommendation as amended. Council Attorney Kathleen Cekanski-Farrand read the amendment into the record: On page 5 Paragraph G delete 4:45 p.m. and replace it with 12:00 (noon) Councilmember White made a motion to amend this bill as read into the record by Council Attorney Kathleen Cekanski-Farrand. Councilmember Rouse seconded the motion which carried by a voice vote of seven (7) ayes. Kathleen Cekanski-Farrand, Council Attorney, made the presentation for this bill on behalf of Councilmember’s Rouse and Kirsits. She advised back in 2007 these same two Councilmember’s proposed the conditional use lawn parking regulations which have successfully been implemented since their date of passage. As a result of the Community Campus Advisory Coalition (CCAC) many positive relationships have developed with all of the Colleges and Universities that surround or are located in the South Bend Community. Recently, there was a meeting with City Clerk John Voorde’s staff, Code Enforcement and the Council to make very 5