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Ann Arbor City Council met at Larcom City Hall Monday evening to discuss amendments and additions to the Ann Arbor Code of Ordinances that will facilitate rezoning initiatives and incorporate regulations and standards for the development of the sustainable energy unit<\/a> approved in November 2024. Further discussion centered around planned construction of new affordable housing units in Ann Arbor and modifications to the Ann Arbor fire station.\u00a0<\/p>\n Councilmembers discussed Resolution CA-10<\/a>, which supports the revision of a development plan for 51 single-family detached homes on Packard Street. City Council approved the original contract<\/a> in 2019 with Peters Building Co., but construction has not started yet. This past meeting, City Council approved to renegotiate the original contract with Robertson Brothers Homes<\/a>, who redesigned<\/a> the site plan to include 35 single-family homes<\/a> with the same requested precautions as the original proposal to protect surrounding trees.\u00a0<\/p>\n Councilmember Lisa Disch, D-Ward 1, spoke about the status of the original development plan and next steps in negotiations between the city administration and project contractors.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThe important thing to know is that more than five years later, the property is still undeveloped,\u201d Disch said. \u201dThis consent agenda item asks council to authorize (Milton) Dahoney, our city administrator, to seek an alternative development proposal, and that alternative would be sought in view of a concept plan from a developer that is attached to the agenda. That concept proposes to develop the site with fewer than 51 homes, all single-family detached. This is an incremental change to the agreement imposed by the consent judgment, and it works within the constraints of that consent judgment. It is mindful of green space. It is protective of trees, and it would offer a housing typology that the city desires.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n