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On Thursday, the Bloomington city council’s four-member administration committee gave a favorable review to a proposed ordinance by mayor John Hamilton’s administration to establish a new engineering department, outside the current planning and transportation department. At Thursday’s meeting, corporation counsel Philippa Guthrie called the need to

If the city’s annual budget starts out as a perfectly round plan at the beginning of the year, it gets a few dings as it rolls along through the months. Towards year’s end, adjustments always get made to the budget, in the form of an appropriation ordinance. Money

Public engagement for Bloomington’s zoning map revision process is underway, with three Zoom video-conference meetings now in the books and at least three more now listed on the city’s zoning map project page. Two meetings are scheduled that will each combine two controversial topics. The first topic

A report released by Bloomington resident Mark Stosberg late Monday questions the way funding for construction of new sidewalks has been allocated in the city for the last 17 years. The report concludes that the process a four-member city council sidewalk committee has used  to recommend funding has caused

At its regular monthly meeting on Monday, Bloomington’s plan commission approved a site plan for Osage Place, which is a Habitat for Humanity project that will put 69 houses on a nearly 13-acre parcel in the southwest part of town, just east of the RCA Community Park. The

At its regular meeting last Wednesday, Bloomington’s city council beefed up its ordinance that applies to the way contractors can use the public right of way, like sidewalks, when they’re working on construction projects. Highlights of the revised ordinance, which the council approved on a unanimous vote, include