Climate activists came to listen and make public comment at Bloomington City Council’s Wednesday night session on the Unified Development Ordinance.
Many speakers were part of activist groups, Bloomington Housing4All and the Golden Bicycle Extinction Rebellion.
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Dave Warren is an instructor at the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs who attended the session. He is a member of Bloomington Housing4All.
He says multiplexes are a more environmentally sustainable way to add housing options in the city.
“If cities develop more compactly, those cities emit less carbon dioxide, or at least the people living closer in emit less carbon dioxide," he says.
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The group’s activism is part of a week-long demonstration demanding that the city address climate change as a crisis.
