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Planning director: city will audit ordinances and processes to lower housing costs
Summary
David Hiddle, Bloomington’s director of planning and transportation, said the city has commissioned an external audit of ordinances and permitting to remove redundant rules and bottlenecks and make housing development faster and less expensive; he also described the state reporting requirement under House Enrolled Act 1001.
David Hiddle told the traveling town hall that local ordinances have grown "layers of rules on top of layers of rules" that increase cost and complexity for housing development and that his department commissioned a third-party external audit of planning, utilities and related processes to identify unnecessary steps, improve coordination and reduce delays.
"We’ve spent the last 60 years just making our…
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