Blocked Street
102 E Kirkwood
- Case Date:
- 6/18/2021
Privately owned businesses on the north aide of the 100 block of E Kirkwood — a public street —have completely blocked off the entire width of the street, making it completely inaccessible to bicycles. When Kirkwood is closed to car traffic, the public street still needs to be shared space and not dedicated exclusively to private business owners of the Uptown and the Farm restaurants!
Business
1115 N Jackson St, Bloomington, IN 47404, USA
- Case Date:
- 9/11/2021
Operating a non-consensual towing company without a permit, in violation of Ordinance No. 20-03. Refusing to allow customers to pay 20% of towing fees to retrieve car, and set up a payment agreement for the remaining balance, also in violation of 20-03. Multiple complaints of predatory and illegal towing. Against city noise ordinances by loudly towing cars from residential areas during quiet hours.
Line of Sight
301 E Kirkwood Ave, Bloomington, IN 47408, USA
- Case Date:
- 11/27/2021
Please do not allow food trucks on Kirkwood to block line of sight to stop signs along Kirkwood. One afternoon we witnessed at least six cars run the stop sign at Kirkwood and Lincoln because a food truck obstruction vision of the stop sign at that corner. There were a couple of near-misses with pedestrians and other cars with ROW. I love food trucks, but let's either move the stop signs further out or ban the food trucks from blocking view of the stop signs on the corners. (Keep them on the east side of each block).
Business
629 N Fairview ST
- Case Date:
- 1/19/2022
Can someone please look into the businesses that are operating out of 629 N. Fairview? Red Tire Taxi received a Rapid Response Fund loan of $12,000 in 2020 for being in the Bloomington Urban Enterprise Zone. I am in my third year of almost daily walking past that building at a wide variety of hours and have only seen a vehicle with a Red Tire Taxi sticker on it once and that was in the summer of 2019. There are two different tow truck company trucks in and out and the majority of the vehicles in their two lots are in some state of serious disrepair. The same vehicles with missing windows are there from when I first moved into this neighborhood in 2019. Is this a junk yard? If it is a junkyard, is there ordinance language around having fences around them? There are vehicles parked on grass in the back as well. If you look up the business registration for that address there is only one business listed and that is called Bloomington Extreme Auto (which is also the business used to perform the safety inspection on Red Tire Taxi's vehicles for the business license), and they were administratively dissolved in 2018.
It is an unpleasant area to have a part of daily life, and seems illegitimate in at least one way, if not more. Please look into it. Thank you.
- Case Date:
- 4/12/2022
Are restaurants with parklets allowed to keep non customers off of their tables? Tap says the tables in the street, in the public right of way, are only for their customers. That does not seem right.
Business
642 N Madison ST
- Case Date:
- 7/1/2022
The Mill is a co-working space that I rented from in May and June. They are trying to charge me for July facilities usage even though I had informed them in June that I will not be there. Tehy owe me $90. Please have them refund my money. Thank you. Elliot
Food Truck Issues
Bloomington City Hall, 401 N Morton St, Bloomington, IN 47401, USA
- Case Date:
- 10/3/2022
Business
3903 S Walnut ST
- Case Date:
- 11/20/2022
I found this company online and was looking into their products. I found their official Reddit page, and it seems as if they discharge firearms into an empty barrel inside of their shop.
Is this safe? Is this even legal? Can just anyone do this? Can my neighbors be doing this?
I have included a link to this post, where there is video of someone discharging the firearms and comments about this practice from some one claiming to be running the shop.
https://www.reddit.com/r/czscorpion/comments/yki7o5/sneak_peek_of_the_first_development_testing_on/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
Unsafe Buildings
1031 E Hillside DR
- Case Date:
- 12/5/2022
There is a loud rumbling noise coming from Carlise factory since 10pm Sunday December 5 that is causing shaking of my house and vibrations that can be felt inside. Noise from the factory has been an ongoing issue, but it has been increasing in volume and intensity for a few months. The factory was quiet yesterday during the day (Sunda) bu the noise and reverberations that began at 10pm last night has been the worst yet. I'm concerned for my personal safety, but also for the structure of my house and utilities - especially gas lines.
- Case Date:
- 3/7/2023
A janitorial business is being run out of 707 W Graham Drive. Please clean up our neighborhood. Enforce city code.