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SMITH HILL DISCUSSIONS RESUME

(Richmond, IN)--There is renewed effort to revisit the proposed Smith Hill development in Richmond.  That plan, in its original form, would have added 170 houses to an area near Backmeyer and Garwood Road.  The plan ended last June when the owner of 11th Street Development told Common Council the plan would include rental units.  Then-Council President Larry Parker last June said this to the developer.  "I don't know what you're going to do.  You're going to have to start over, I guess."  But, at last week’s meeting of the EDC Board, President Valerie Shaffer indicated that the Indiana EDC is again meeting with the developer about the project.