The City Council plans to reconsider Stratton Development’s rezoning request for the corner of North Elm and Cornwalls on Tuesday, February 2; the revised plan will include 14 townhouses. 

Some key points from the neighborhood group's latest update:

*Rental homes may have been bought in anticipation of further rezoning along Elm and in the Wrenn/Newlyn neighborhood. There is concern that approval of this rezoning could lead to further spot rezoning.

*Neighbors are working on a Neighborhood Conservation Overlay (NCO) to prevent ad hoc zoning changes and guide future development. An NCO can give developers and residents confidence in the future.

*Because protests petitions are in force, a three-quarters majority of voting council persons will be required to approve rezoning. Perkins cannot vote because of his interest in the property. Vaughan cannot vote because of her husband’s representation of the neighborhoods. With only seven Council people voting, two voting in the negative would defeat the project. If defeated, developers cannot ask for the same rezoning for one calendar year.

*The Council must reconsider the rezoning conditions which were defeated last December...It is not clear that Council can or will approve substituting the new conditions for the ones defeated in December.