South Bend Common Council

Realtors fear South Bend's coming short-term rental rules will slow economic activity. Council Member Heidi Beidinger notes that many in the community wanted even stricter rules but the council was constrained by Indiana laws that are favorable to owners and investors.

South Bend Community Police Review Office Director Charles King is asking the common council to reduce training requirements for volunteer board members so they can start hearing cases sooner after being seated by the council.

South Bend Common Council members Oliver Davis Jr. and Sherry Bolden-Simpson have filed a bill barring city officials from entering into non-disclosure agreements, after a James Mueller administration official citing an NDA in declining to attend a recent council committee meeting.

Officials are working to reassure residents that South Bend’s LaSalle Park area is safe, but the Environmental Protection Agency continues to analyze the site.

South Bend Common Council member Heidi Beidinger says residents in her eastside district are fed up with unruly parties, trash and parking problems from short-term rentals.

The South Bend Common Council Monday night voted 7-1 to pause the city's involvement in work to develop the Midwest Continental Divide Trail project, despite a veto threat from the Mayor James Mueller administration.

A study earlier this year found South Bend, with the lowest home prices, to be the nation's best college town for investing in short-term-rentals.

The South Bend Common Council this week filed a motion to appeal a recent ruling by St. Joseph Superior Judge Jamie Woods finding that recorded phone conversations involving police officers, capturing them saying allegedly racist things, violated privacy laws.

After initially declining interviews on the issue, South Bend Mayor James Mueller on Tuesday held a press conference to talk about the South Bend Reparatory Justice Commission's report, after the commission formally presented it to the common council Monday night.

Indiana statute requires city common council members to have lived in the city for a year and in their council district for six months, but property records show Heidi Beidinger bought her South Bend home only nine months ago.