CROWN POINT | Worried that owners of homes adjacent to a proposed development were not properly notified about city meetings relating to the property, residents of a nearby neighborhood want the issue to take a step backward.

Homeowner Beth Uram sent a letter early Monday morning to City Council members and Mayor David Uran expressing her concern about who was notified about a city Plan Commission meeting where the rezoning of the proposed development was being discussed. The letter asks that the issue go back to the Plan Commission for further study.

The development is to be at the southwest corner of Interstate 65 and U.S. 231.

The City Council was scheduled to have a final vote on the issue, but a power outage caused by Monday night's storm delayed the discussion until 7 p.m. Thursday. At last month's preliminary vote, the council voted 5-1 in favor of the rezoning the land.

Jim Wieser, the attorney for Vanco Construction Services Inc., the owner of the land, said the meeting was published in the newspaper and he sent letters to adjacent property owners who were on a certified list from the assessor's office.

The letter Uram sent states that not all adjacent property owners were notified as required by law. At the meeting, some adjacent property owners were told their attendance overruled the fact that everyone wasn't notified. The Plan Commission passed the issue on to the council without a recommendation.

"The vote by the Plan Commission was questionable enough that the residents who were not properly notified may have persuaded a different outcome," the letter said.

Wieser said the council can't resolve the issue of notice. He also said he wasn't aware of the council being able to send the issue back to the Plan Commission because of notice.

Vanco Construction asked the city to rezone 95 acres for a development in which tentative plans include retail, commercial, townhomes, assisted living, apartments and a hotel.