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At its regular Tuesday meeting, Monroe County councilors approved a $300,000 appropriation of food and beverage tax revenue to help make debt payments in connection with the county’s convention center. The debt covers renovations and land acquisition that have already been made. It’s not related to the

The warehouse across the B-Line Trail from the pickleball courts in Bloomington’s new 65-acre Switchyard Park is the subject of a rezone request that landed in front of the city council last Wednesday. The project associated with the proposed rezone would require the demolition of the southern

Proposed amendments to the text of Bloomington’s unified development ordinance (UDO), and proposed changes to the citywide zoning map, were scrutinized by the public in late 2020. Revised versions of the proposed text and map changes have now landed in front of the city’s nine-member plan commission.

Last Wednesday, at their regular meeting, Monroe County commissioners approved an increase for the base rate of the county’s annual stormwater fee, from $35.16 to $75.77. The decision to raise the fee came after a hearing held by the county’s stormwater management board in December, and

A change to the city of Bloomington’s tax abatement policy, approved by the city council on Wednesday last week, will make it easier for affordable housing projects to satisfy abatement criteria The change replaces the basic criterion for tax abatement. In the previous policy, the basic requirement was that

Good news tempered with caution about the persistent presence of the pandemic virus was again the theme of this Friday’s weekly press conference on COVID-19 response, held by Bloomington area leaders. Probably the most significant news out of Friday’s news conference was the fact that Monroe County’