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The Bloomington Redevelopment Commission is postponing approving a project agreement for two new downtown parking garages. The project review  is meant to memorialize the city’s commitment to additional sustainability and design features for each parking garage. Members of Bloomington’s Common Council want to achieve an even broader commitment to sustainability in the garages’ designs. Bloomington Council members appealed to the …

The Bloomington City Council will take up two, multi-million dollar bonding initiatives tonight. A ten million dollar bond would fund parks projects. Another $29.5 million bond would build two new parking garages in Bloomington’s downtown. The proposed parks bond would fund more than seven miles of new trails, and 1,400 new trees. It would also pay for the creation of …

Sex offenders on probation in Bloomington and Monroe County will attend a mandatory movie screening on Halloween. Operation “Safe Halloween” is a collaboration between the local probation department and the Department of Corrections. As WFHB Correspondent Annie Aguiar reports, the mandatory meeting lasts during Bloomington’s trick-or-treat hours, from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

The Senate Judiciary Committee will hear testimony from Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, and an alleged sexual assault victim, on Monday; Senator Joe Donnelly announced his support today for bipartisan legislation that would impose sanctions on foreign governments accused of interfering in US elections; Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb announced on Friday, a defense contractor will receive nearly two million dollars in tax …

After IU Health announced its sale of the downtown Bloomington hospital for $6.5 million to the city of Bloomington, the city contracted the Urban Land Institute to put forward recommendations on what to do with the 24-acre downtown site. As City of Bloomington Communications Director Yael Ksander tells WFHB News Director Wes Martin, the Urban Land Institute is putting forward …

Bloomington City Council members are working to limit the heights of new, downtown development. In their ongoing revision of the city’s comprehensive plan, council members voted unanimously to remove language that would increase building heights to achieve maximum residential density. In last night’s meeting, Council member Isabel Piedmont-Smith authored the amendment to strike the language from the plan. She says …

Bloomington City Council members are working to limit the heights of new downtown development, the Sophia Travis playground at Karst Farm Park is getting a makeover, the Indiana legislature is considering revising Indiana’s alcohol laws, Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb addressed the state legislature in his State of the State address on Tuesday night. FEATURE Indiana’s legislature passed a law last session …