Connect won’t be moving the new Transit Center

By: Diane Benjamin To get the whole picture, readers have to combine the video and the meeting documentation about the downtown transfer station: PDF page 29 https://connect-transit.com/file/3878/2025%2010%2028_Meeting%20Packet.pdf Once Connect Transit found out the old Pantagraph building wouldn’t work for the downtown transit center, this happened: . Bloomington has wanted to get rid of the Market […]

Update: McLean County’s Land Use Plan: Who’s Really in Charge?

It appears McLean County is doing a study and the McLean County Regional Planning Commission is doing another. This story mixes the two and will take more work. By: Diane Benjamin The McLean County Regional Planning Commission website shows 7 employees and 2 interns: https://mcplan.org/about-us/about-mcrpc/staff Those employees didn’t want to create or aren’t capable of […]

2nd Draft of McLean County Land Use Plan

By: Diane Benjamin The posted plan is a Google doc: https://drive.google.com/file/d/16zzKHLTUw6LhtiEwbCtnyqkehUx2kXin/view I converted their doc to a PDF so AI could read it: I had both Chat GPT5 and Grok analyze the effect it has on rural land. I only looked at rural because that is where I live and a person who is looking […]