A scheduled update on Three Rivers’ Brownfield Redevelopment Plan #7 was pulled from the agenda of Tuesday’s Three Rivers City Commission meeting just before its 6 p.m. start.

The update was on the agenda seen on the city’s website as late as midday Tuesday. The currently published agenda reflects Tuesday’s event.

City Manager Joe Bippus said he thinks the Brownfield Redevelopment Plan needs to be discussed before the full commission of seven people. Commissioner Torrey Brown was absent Tuesday. In August, there was a meeting attended by four commissioners, the minimum amount needed for a quorum. Votes needed to be unanimous, meaning 3-1 wasn’t good enough to schedule a public hearing on the Brownfield Plan.

“That’s been one of the problems with that project. Allen Edwin doesn’t feel like they’ve gotten a fair shake because there hasn’t been a full commission to consider the item. You have a situation where three commissioners, the majority that are sitting here, say yes, they want something. One person could stop it, the minority of the group. We’re trying to get a full, fair shake for them, yes or no,” Bippus said.

Allen Edwin Homes has modified the site plan for a housing development at 611 Coolidge Place, Watershed Voice previously reported. Tuesday’s initial agenda included Allen Edwin’s request for a public hearing on the Brownfield Plan to take place Monday, November 4.

While Bippus said it would be nice for the full Three Rivers City Commission to be updated on the Brownfield Plan, he also said he doesn’t know if it will happen.

“I don’t know if (Allen Edwin will) wait forever, but that would be nice. We’ve just had a run here where we haven’t been able to have a full commission for some reason,” Bippus said.

During the citizen comment portion of the meeting, Lynn McLeod said that had the Brownfield Plan stayed on Tuesday’s agenda, a lot more people would have attended the meeting. Emphasizing the word “somebody,” McLeod said somebody communicated with residents Andy Goldberger and Mike Fleckenstein prior to the meeting, who she said were supposed to speak Tuesday.

“Just like I said at the last meeting, that Andy and Mike were gonna get together with Joe,” McLeod said, before saying to Bippus, “You weren’t here.”

“I mean, c’mon, you guys,” McLeod said to the commission.

Frank Stanko is a staff writer for Watershed Voice.