The turnout was smaller, but the majority of Lyons residents participating in last week’s special election — the town’s second in less than a month’s time — appeared to affirm the position that most people took when they cast ballots in March.
Public parks and open-space properties should not be converted to housing sites, voters said in both elections.
When the balloting ended on March 24, 55 percent of the Lyons voters taking part in the first election — 614 of a total 1,112 filled-out ballots counted — rejected a proposal to allow between 5 and 7 acres of the town’s Bohn Park to become the site of 50 to 70 units of housing to replace homes lost in the 2013 flood.
When ballots were tallied last Tuesday, 386 voters — 54 percent of the 714 Lyons voters making their opinions known in that second election — approved adopting an ordinance that will now require voter approval of any town decision to rezone parks and open space land that is half an acre or larger.
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