At last night’s city council meeting, after listening to a limited number of residents speak on the Orchard Station Comprehensive Plan amendment (the new revisions to the amendment were only released three-days earlier on Friday afternoon at 3:00 p.m.), city council members publicly stated their positions and ultimately, passed the ordinance by a vote of 5-3. Click here to read the redline version of the revised Comp Plan amendment.

The council members opposed to the Orchard Station Subarea do not believe that the amendment provides adequate protections to current residents regarding density, building height, traffic and maintaining the Village’s current balance of single-family (54%) vs. multi-family (46%) residences.

However, city council did honor its previous commitment to refer the amendment to the comprehensive plan to the voters and set a Special Election on the issue for June 6, 2017.