By: Diane Benjamin We know Connect Transit had plans to buy huge electric buses regardless of what the Working Group reported about the size of buses needed: https://blnnews.com/2019/09/27/proof-the-working-group-is-a-joke/ We know Connect Transit fabricated a response in order to delay my FOIA request: https://blnnews.com/2019/09/27/more-proof-connect-transit-shouldnt-exist/ I did receive the FOIA last Friday, 633 pages of the […]
By: Diane Benjamin The proposed zoning changes will be before the Bloomington City Council soon. Everybody claims it isn’t form based code which takes away your right to do with your property what is in your best interest. This is a link to what is proposed: http://www.cityblm.org/Home/ShowDocument?id=20438 It 246 pages of gibberish you will only […]
By: Diane Benjamin The City of Bloomington has been trying to pass Form Based Code for years. Normal already has it. Everything looks the same, especially the student housing. Individualism isn’t allowed. Almost every building is retail on the bottom with apartment above, whether there is a need for retail or not. One Uptown Circle […]
By: Diane Benjamin First a medical update: Prayer does work! My husband has had people all over the globe praying for his recovery. Today he woke up, opened his eyes and responded to our voices and commands from the medical staff. He had a brain aneurysm that burst on Good Friday. The ICU neurology staff […]
By: Diane Benjamin The Bloomington Planning Commission is holding a meeting at 4:00 today in the Council Chambers. There will be a Public Hearing on the Comprehensive Bloomington Plan put together by the Regional Planning Commission. Nice of them to hold a meeting when most people are still at work! Claims will be made that […]
This picture is from the 2007 Form Based Code plan: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Now compare this to the one at the corner or Main and Market: Notice the surveillance equipment added to new light pole? Smile – you are on police camera! Coming soon […]
When buzzing in my ear is too great to ignore – I must report! Buzzing around the Bloomington Council chambers, I heard Mayor Stockton wants committees! For what – who knows. I’d bet a committee on Form Based Code would be a Big Hit. Pack it with council members and like minded citizens who compile a […]
The latest news from CityWatch: “What do you mean the McLean County Regional Planning Commission are federal administrators?” That was the question in response to the recent discovery regarding who the McLean County Regional Planning Commission really is. So, what was the discovery, you ask? It started with an investigation some weeks back when we became […]
If you haven’t watched this video – TAKE the TIME NOW. Start at 33:51 and watch until the end. The video is a presentation by Julie Hile, hired by YOUR local government, with one purpose: Get the agenda of government funded and implemented by controlling the conversation. This video talks specifically about people in Bloomington-Normal […]
A mere two weeks ago CITYWATCH dropped the Hile Bombshell – an expose’ that revealed a multi-levelled, multi-layered and multi-year plan that exploited two entire communities, slanted objectives, and distorted the process in which to get there. What was essentially a confession of sorts, no less an admission of facts, local consultant/facilitator, Julie Hile of the Hile Group, disclosed […]
It might seem to some local citizens, and even to many of our local city officials and elected council members, that the focus of sustainable issues, and thus, Agenda 21 – related projects, are issues that only us here at CITYWATCH are concerned about. Such is not the case. But, unfortunately, our community and city officials […]
. . . and while they’re watching us, we’re watching them right back – this video explains a why – This is what we do. And, we could use your help. Let me explain. I am by no means a fan of Hillary Clinton (sorry), but some years back, Ms. Clinton wrote a book entitled, “It […]
It comes to no surprise to those of us “in the shadows“, as we have been tagged. To those of us “in the know”. Those of us who have been involved in this Main Street/Form Based Code debate with local government from the beginning have known all along something was amiss. And those of us in the know have been well […]
Tonight, at a Work Session prior to the regular Bloomington City Council Meeting, the Council will be presented with, review and determine, at the suggestion of the McLean County Regional Planning Commission, a proposed project scope for the updating of our City’s Comprehensive Plan. You may read this agenda item at the following link: http://www.cityblm.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=2123 . Within that Project […]
February 5, 2012 WHAT IF OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS WEREN’T DOING THEIR JOBS? You might ask why and how that might happen? What if they weren’t aware of what their jobs were? What their duties were? Or, what their obligations were? These are all very valid questions, especially if we, the citizens, aren’t aware of what their […]
