City council decided to alter the development permit of a new hotel being built on Crawford Avenue.

At its regular meeting Tuesday (July 14), council approved a request by the developer to swap out a landscaping bond of more than $200,000 in exchange for a restrictive covenant.

This restrictive covenant against the property means that instead of paying the city up front for landscaping on the property, the owner of the hotel will be prohibited from occupying and operating the building on the property until landscaping requirements have been met.

The owner requested this change up because the landscaping will be done at the end of the construction process and that $200,000 would be better directed at the completion of the project as opposed to sitting in a trust account waiting to be released upon completing the landscaping work.