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Bloomington’s city council voted Wednesday night to relax some membership requirements of the parking commission, a move meant to make it more likely the commission has a full complement of nine members. But the council postponed a couple of changes to the city’s parking code until its Aug.

The City of Bloomington is prepping to knock down the Fourth Street parking garage starting Sept. 3. But the demolition won’t start from south to north, which is one of the scenarios that bidders for the work were asked to contemplate. That’s because legal proceedings in the city’

Monroe County’s sheriff, Brad Swain, appeared in front of the county board of commissioners on Wednesday morning to ask them to approve $6,850 to install four microphones on the first floor of the jail. With the purchase came the news that body cameras will be worn by a

Separate parking issues on Dunn Street and 17th Street together make up one of the two items on Wednesday’s city council agenda. The second agenda item is also related to parking—the eligibility requirements for service on the parking commission are proposed to be loosened. Both agenda items are

On Wednesday, Bloomington councilmembers will begin their deliberations on Collegiate Development Group’s proposed 820-bed planned unit development (PUD) on North Walnut at the site of the current Motel 6. At 5:30 p.m. the project will be considered by the four-member land use committee: councilmembers Allison

A meeting of the Bloomington city council rules committee on Monday evening was postponed to some other time, after less than 10 minutes of conversation. The council’s administrator/attorney, Dan Sherman, questioned whether the meeting had been properly noticed, and that led to some sharp exchanges between him and