After weeks of controversy , the proposal to rezone more than 900 acres of land near Bolingbroke died Tuesday evening after the Monroe County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously to deny the proposal.

The decision comes about a week after the Monroe County Planning and Zoning Board voted unanimously to recommend denying the proposal. However, as the board can only make recommendations, the final decision was with the commissioners.

The board of commissioners’ decision Tuesday officially defeats the project. Had the rezoning been approved, property owners Haley Newnam, Holly Doss and Otis Ingram planned to sell the land to a tech company that would develop the land into a data center.

The property owners told The Telegraph after the meeting in an email they are disappointed by th

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