Case Date:

8/12/2024

Trash on sidewalk at 202 east dodds street

Case Date:

8/12/2024

Homeless have left trash in yard, city sidewalk and the creek along the business.

Case Date:

8/12/2024

Property is a jungle. Can anything be done to force the owner to do some trimming?

Case Date:

8/12/2024

Opposing making Green Acres a Conservation District: I am writing today as a member of the real estate community here in Bloomington having been an agent for close to a decade. I'm also writing from my experience as a commissioner of both the Planning Commission and Board of Zoning Appeals for the past several years. I can very much value and appreciate the history and architectural history of the Green Acres neighborhood. I thank the residents who put in the work and told the story of how Green Acres has evolved from the beginning. Stories like these are worth telling and being displayed to the public as much as possible. As far as the petition itself to deem Green Acres a conservation district leading to full fledged historic district designation, I believe is a very broad overreach of the intentions of historical preservation. Having lived several years in the Near West Side/Prospect Hill neighborhood as well as having owned several properties in historic neighborhoods in other cities I can speak to the impact of this type of designation personally as well. Talking about a select handful of houses, which are notable and can be kept as such, and expanding that to include several hundred that have little to no historic significance is where the overreach comes into play. As a real estate agent and investor myself, I fully understand where many are coming from who oppose this broad reach. The point of historic designation is to single out properties that carry a story all their own, not to lump an entire neighborhood, with a large rental population and no historical significance, and confine the expansion and development that is desperately needed to support a growing University and the city as a whole. I've been a part of many discussions on the commissions which I serve about how we can balance preservation with expansion and development and I've seen cases where that blends very well together and is a win-win. This is not one of those cases but since it has been presented as such I'm strongly opposed to it. I believe the intentions are misguided and really crosses a line into government intrusion into the livelihood of many tax paying owners in that neighborhood who want to continue to house students and families at a time when more housing density, of any kind, is very much needed. There are checks and balances in place already to prevent what many are referencing as the Kmart type development here and I fully support the expansion of this neighborhood. I think the goal here should be to keep the current historically significant houses in Green Acres just as they are and work to preserve other individual properties one at a time. Not taking a very broad stroke and misusing the point of preservation in the first place and thus bottlenecking an area ripe for future development. Thank you for your time.

Case Date:

8/12/2024

Grass needs cutting. Habitual offender.

Case Date:

8/12/2024

Large stack of discarded furniture and debris is sitting in the yard at the edge of Dodds for an extended period of time. Need to be removed as it is unsanitary and unsightly.

Case Date:

8/12/2024

Tenants just dumped trash on curb and it has been sitting there for over two trash/recycling pickup cycles. The lot (two houses on one lot) has been a continual problem for the neighborhood with trash/debri and just in general inconsiderate neighbors.

Case Date:

8/9/2024

Trash from what looks like clear out of tenants from the house. The rugs have been rained on several times. Also the tree that is over growing on the sidewalk has still not been addressed.

Case Date:

8/9/2024

This is the second time I've reported this. Earlier in the year it looked like they were using plastic containers to start seeds in the front, now it's just become junk and they are not mowing.

Case Date:

8/9/2024

Hello, I live at Oakdale Square Apartments. Apartment management had an issue with their trash collection service and it has been weeks since trash is collected. Management added a few more temporary dumpsters but existing dumpsters are full of rotting food/feces and causing terrible health hazards. You can't even drive or walk around the whole complex without getting assaulted by the rotting smell, swarm of flies and maggots everywhere. Can city do anything about it? Thank you! Debra