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GREENSBORO — After months of fuss, plans for a contentious rezoning fizzled this week.

It’s unclear when a proposal to replace homes with commercial development at Lawndale Drive  and Lake Jeanette Road  might re-emerge. An attorney representing local developers pulled the most recent rezoning request for about 2 acres  there Tuesday.

But residents of the Country Park  area should have at least a few months’ reprieve. The city limits rezoning requests on any property to two  per year  —and developers have reached that cap after trying first to put a retail project and then an office complex on that corner.

"It’s pretty clear that now is not the right time for that project," said Derek Allen , the attorney representing John Stratton , Robbie Perkins  and Stanhope Johnson  of NAI Piedmont Triad , a major local real estate services firm.

Perkins is an at-large candidate in the City Council race.

  Allen said  the developers and area residents could not reach a comfortable compromise.

Neighbors have fought rezoning of the property for months, citing concerns about traffic, existing vacant commercial space nearby and a potential domino effect of development heading north . Members of the neighborhood association did not return calls seeking comment Wednesday .

Zoning officials voted in May  against a retail rezoning on the property.
Last month , developers brought the request back  with a plan for four single-story office buildings.

The city’s Zoning Commission voted 5-3  in favor of that plan.

It would have gone before the City Council next week.

Contact Michelle Jarboe at 373-7075 or mjarboe@news-record.com