The vote, said supervisors' Chairwoman Helen Calci "doesn't lock the board into anything," but merely allows the alternative proposal, which includes donating 50 percent of the land to the township as open space and halves the number of proposed housing units down to roughly 600, to be examined in greater detail before a final decision is made.
There are currently two options on the table, and an explanation of the second one, which emerged in November, is on the agenda for the Jan. 16 Upper Providence Township meeting.