By: Diane Benjamin If you still don’t understand laws in Bloomington only apply to citizen peons, this story should convince you. Follow-up to this story: https://blnnews.com/2025/09/13/strike-3-bloomington/ After the Planning Commission postponed hearing the case for allowing a homeless shelter in a single family neighborhood, staff hung around to answer questions and hear comments from the […]
By: Diane Benjamin By now readers should know laws only apply to peons. Aldermen can violate City Code while campaigning for office and nothing happens to them. The City Manager can violate his $50,000 spending limit and nothing happens to him. The latest: A Planning Commision meeting was held last week. Since it was held […]
By: Diane Benjamin 1) The zoning change for the property in this story was delayed by the Planning Commission until October: https://blnnews.com/2025/09/03/homeless-shelter-in-single-family-neighborhood-at-planning-commission-today/ I have no idea why. 2) h/t a reader The cabins for the downtown homeless village Home Sweet Home Ministries is building are being assembled where Clay Dooley used to be located: .
By: Diane Benjamin See PDF page 20: https://bloomingtonil.portal.civicclerk.com/event/1087/files/agenda/6753 The documentation doesn’t make it clear what the owner of the vacant property wants to build: . The only way to understand what is happening is to read this story: https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2023-06-02/long-term-plan-to-help-the-homeless-lives-short-life-on-bloomingtons-northwest-side Excepts: Chris Collins said he invited people to sleep on land he owned in a Bloomington […]
