After hours of public comment and discussion by the commission, the Decatur City Commission voted 4-1 (with Mayor Baskett casting the only “nay” vote) this evening to table the tree ordinance until early March.

The vote included noting that they planned to accept revisions to some of the numbers that have been much discussed here over the past few days – the 55% coverage, the 10% lot coverage, the $1.50 a square foot cost.  The Commission stated that they had asked staff lower all of these figures prior to the meeting.

We can go into further detail on these tomorrow.  Or if anyone wants to report out more details in the comments, go for it.

This is pretty cool.  Yvette sent along this photo via Twitter of a page from USA Today recommending the American Planning Association list of “great neighborhoods” to business travelers.  As was initially announced back in October, Downtown Decatur was featured on the APA’s list last October.

Here’s the article that went along with the list, if you’re interested.

Another item of note on tonight’s Decatur City Commission agenda.  The developer of the already-approved 24 townhomes on the west side of Hillyer Place and East Howard is requesting residential use in a commercial zoning district to expand the project across Hillyer on the current site of a vacant industrial building.

According to the project application, the project would consist of 11 townhomes that all face the street with two car garage parking in the rear and 6 foot wide sidewalks.

According to the staff report included with the application, the applicant is seeking the following exceptions for the project…