Developer of Commonage property going back to the drawing board

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“The vote result means our proposal for attainable homes and protection of the lands will not proceed,” the developer stated.

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“The most troubling aspect of [the] decision is that council prevented this application from advancing to a public hearing. Denying the community its right to be heard on a project of this significance is unacceptable. It also denied us the opportunity to address, in an open and public forum, the considerable misinformation that has circulated about this application.

It is also important to remember that this land is private property. That means the protections proposed through our application would have been the mechanism to change that and conserve almost two-thirds of the property from development in perpetuity.

The result is that valuable land will not receive the protections proposed, and the attainable homes our community urgently needs will not be built. Our goal throughout has been to find a market based solution to the housing crisis, which required compromise on all sides. We were prepared to make that compromise. Council was not prepared to let the process run its course.”

Kerkhoff Develop-Build said it would go back to the drawing board and redesign the proposed development so it would align with the property’s existing zoning. A timeline for when that would be done and brought before city council again was not provided.

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