WFHB Bloomington Community Radio
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City council president Andy Ruff recaps the game of chicken played out at City Hall when Mayor Mark Kruzan rendered moot the issue of a “hardship buyout” of I-69 property at Tapp Road and State Road 37 at the most recent meeting of the Bloomington/Monroe County Metropolitan Planning Organization. Instead of amending the local transportation plan to include the property as I-69 right-of-way, Kruzan announced that the city will instead buy the property itself. Where the state wants to put an interchange for I-69, the city will develop an affordable housing project, assuming the property owner accepts the city’s offer and the city council approves the deal.
