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Article: Gravel pit foe cites similar effort in '07
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- The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL
- Article date:
- November 19, 2008
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BLOOMINGTON - The president of the Southwest Bloomington
Residents Association says that if a proposed gravel pit was within
the city limits instead of in the county, it likely would not
happen.
Susan Schafer said that when the Bloomington Planning Commission
denied a request by Bud Hall to rezone land off Six Points Road to
make way for a gravel pit in 2007, members said the city should
"never put manufacturing in residential areas."
That proposed gravel pit would have been on 44 acres near a
residential area, she said.
"Here we are today about another gravel pit in the area," Schafer
said. "I feel a sense of dj vu."
Schafer testified before the McLean County Zoning Board that a
proposed ...