Monday night, Chappelle joined Yellow Springs, Ohio, residents in vocally pushing back against development he had opposed from the outset.
Plans for mixed housing development in the village of Yellow Springs, Ohio, where comic superstar Dave Chappelle lives, have been nixed after the funnyman and other residents protested.
Oberer Homes, a new home construction company out of Miamisburg, Ohio, has plans to develop 53 acres in Yellow Springs, which is about 20 miles east of Dayton. The village and the company produced a plan that would have included duplexes, single-family homes and an affordable housing component on the south edge of the small town.
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However, on Monday night, numerous residents, Chappelle among them, pushed back against revised “planned unit development” zoning, the Dayton Daily News reported. The village council voted — two members voted for the plan and two against, with one abstention. That means the development can continue, but without an affordable housing component. Yellow Springs and Oberer will now move forward with the building of 143 single-family homes, each with a starting price of about $300,000.
According to reporting in December from the Dayton Daily News, Chappelle opposed the original plan and, in fact, the entire housing development project. Chappelle noted that he has “invested millions of dollars in town,” and said in December he was “adamantly opposed to it.”
Source: Dave Chappelle opposed development plan that included affordable housing
