Roanoke City Council on Monday night roundly rejected a hotly contested rezoning of vacant land on Brandon Avenue where a developer hoped to build an apartment complex.
The 6-0 vote against a proposal by developer Robert Fralin came after an endurance session of a public hearing where 25 people spoke. Councilman David Trinkle was absent from the meeting.
The vote cut 180 degrees against the 5-0 vote in support of the rezoning by the city’s planning commission last week.
Fralin had proposed building 54 apartments in a four-building complex in the 7.5 acres near the intersection of Brandon and Brambleton avenues. Through the application process, he revised aspects of the project multiple times.
