upzoning – The Dissident Democrat

Wake Up. It’s On. Again.

Advocates for urban density have launched another push to turn Bloomington into Ann Arbor, in the vapid hope that shoe-horning more, smaller apartments into already-dense areas will improve housing affordability through the fairy dust of supply and demand.

Bloomington Dissident Democrats 2024 Endorsements: Thomas, Githens, Deckard, Munson

For County Council and Commissioner seats, Bloomington Dissident Democrats urges primary voters to resist the challengers’ entreaties to replace the incumbents with new commissioners who will promote dense housing development.

The Easiest, Fairest Resolution for City Council District 5

For the District 5 City Council seat, we endorse Jenny Stevens.

Hamilton and his planners propose to take another shot at densification this year

The winner of the 2023 Democratic Primary, and the runner-up, both publicly opposed further densification of the core. Tweaking the UDO, again, to push his poorly rationalized agenda to defy the Comprehensive Plan and densify Bloomington’s neighborhoods should not be the prerogative of a lame duck mayor whose handpicked successor came in a weak third.

The 2023 Democratic Primary: Our Closing Argument

For the last 7+ years, the Hamilton Administration and a determined minority on the City Council have pulled Bloomington in the wrong direction. The 2023 citywide election provides Bloomingtonians a real opportunity to put the city on a more realistic and less divisive course – if we seize that opportunity.