The Marana Town Council voted to approve a controversial rezoning for a 674-home development plan after the homebuilder negotiated with neighboring homeowners to make additional concessions.

The Tapestry developer met with residents as late as the day of the council meeting and submitted an additional 20 revisions to the plan on the afternoon of the Jan. 17 meeting. Among the concessions were buffers between developments, limits on heights of homes adjacent to other developments and the amount of open space in the development.

Area residents came out to multiple council meetings to use the call to the public to voice their initial displeasure to the project, but after a number of meetings with neighboring developments and residents that led to a number of concessions, just one of the seven speakers objected to the new proposal, though a few said they still had reservations about the project.

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