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I don't have a dog in this hunt as far as property in this area, so what I think doesn't mean a thing. That being said... the Hill place apts. is really a burden on the area around it, noise, traffic, late night parties etc.. It is possible that the council members that voted to not rezone were looking at that. If the property were to become a high rise condo complex with lower floor mixed use it probably would have gone the other way. Hill place is new and already leaving a bad taste in some peoples' mouth. It will be hard to sell student complexes to the council.

Zman, you say the developers presented a plan at the council meeting. What you neglected to say is the council was not voting on a development plan. The council was voting on a rezoning of the property. You might try to understand the council cannot vote on a concideration of something that is not on the table. If the developers purchase the property and then go through the planning commission with a development plan it would be a vote on the development. When this neighborhood goes through the Walker park and Fayette Junction type master plan process this land will probably be rezoned to downtown general. Until that time you have to have a reason to rezone, not just a request to rezone. The criteria for consideration is pretty narrow. Whatever you do, don't listen to Matt Petty to figure out the process. Another comment is Robert Rhoads misses lots of votes. Look at his voting record as compared to the rest of the City Council. If the council had rules like most of the city boards he would have been tossed out a long time ago for poor attendance. Sorry to be so negative, it's just when you deal with the city you have to play by the rules. If you don't like the rules then run for council and change them.

If you don't support the Fayetteville Forward Summit as a means to a plan, why would you support the Dover/Kohl 2025 plan? Dover was attended by a much more select smaller group and the ideas to expound upon were fed to you by the planners. It would seem to me that the summit with the input of a larger more diverse group is a better representation of the direction Fayetteville wants to proceed. The state of the current economic downturn will also be a huge determining factor in future development ideals. Light rail is not being driven by the desire for a more dense urban city center, conversely it is being heralded by the need for people to reduce their need for money consuming transportation, the end result is the same but the determining factors are driven by a more diverse need.