This aerial image from the west is from Monroe County’s online property lookup system.
BZA meeting Jo Throckmorton (Sept 19, 2024)
BZA meeting Tim Ballard (Sept 19, 2024)
BZA meeting Barre Klapper (Sept 19, 2024)
BZA meeting Flavia Burrell (Sept 19, 2024)
Petitioner Caylan Evans (Sept 19, 2024)
On Thursday, Bloomington’s board of zoning appeals (BZA) voted 3–1 to approve the conditional use application for a duplex on an empty lot northwest of Bryan Park in a central Bloomington neighborhood.
Dissenting was Barre Klapper. Voting for the duplex were: Tim Ballard, Flavia Burrell, and Jo Throckmorton.
Each half of the planned duplex has three bedrooms and three bathrooms.
Monroe County councilor Cheryl Munson. (June 20, 2024)
State representative Matt Pierce. (June 20, 2024)
Administrative law judge Greg Loyd, who presided over the Jan. 20, 2024 hearing in Bloomington.
The Olcott Young Room of the Monroe Convention Center in Bloomington was packed on Thursday (June 20) for the field hearing on Duke Energy’s proposed rate increase.
Close to 170 people packed into the Olcott Young Room of the Monroe Convention Center in downtown Bloomington on Thursday night, for a field hearing on Duke Energy’s case to increase electricity rates.
That’s a big number, because it’s the maximum occupancy for the room under the fire code.
The rate increase is also a big number. By the utility’s own reckoning, Duke’s proposal would increase a typical customer’s bill by at least $330 a year. The Citizens Action Coalition puts that number at over $500 a year.
On Saturday afternoon, four Democratic Party candidates for the three at-large seats on the Monroe County council fielded questions at a forum that took place in the auditorium of the downtown Bloomington location of the Monroe County Public Library.
Over the course of 90 minutes, they answered more than a dozen questions that asked for their thoughts on balancing mental health services against building a new jail, financing a new jail, housing, and reducing the cost of child care, among other topics.
In the council at-large race, eligible voters in Monroe County choose up to three candidates. No Republican candidates declared a candidacy in the primary.
Vying for one of the three seats are incumbents Trent Deckard and Cheryl Munson. Hoping for their first turn of service on the seven-member county council are Matt Caldie and David Henry. Incumbent Geoff McKim is not seeking re-election.
The full forum is available on CATS. Below is a summary of just a few highlights, which are not organized in the chronological order of the forum.
The event was hosted by the League of Women Voters of Bloomington-Monroe County, and cosponsored by the Greater Bloomington Chamber of Commerce, Monroe County NAACP, Monroe County NOW, IU PACE, IU BIG Voting Challenge, and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Kappa Tau Omega Chapter.
