The Templeton Area Advisory Group voted 4-3 last week against a proposed 107-unit housing development — a project returned to the community board from the county with recommended changes from the board of supervisors.

Voting against were Nick Marquart, Rob Rosales, Bill Pelfrey and Pam Finley. Voting for were Melanie Blankenship, David La Rue and Bill Hockey.

The Templeton Properties Project, also known as the Davis Project, includes affordable-housing units and was first brought before TAAG last year when the group voted against it, again 4-3, citing such concerns as too much density for the unincorporated community that doesn’t have the infrastructure of incorporated areas, such as a police department.

Since then, the proposal went before the county planning commission that also denied its support but for other reasons than TAAG. The county planning commission expressed a desire to create more housing, rather than less, and recommended more than 200 units for the 16-acre site.

In February, the board of supervisors gave tentative approval of the project at 107 units but with suggested environmental changes, such as creating more green space.

In February, Fifth District Supervisor Jim Patterson said the units were “shoulder-to-shoulder with no open space, so we wanted them to be a little more creative in their design.”

That’s what developers have done, they say.

“We have worked with county staff to make the revisions that we were directed to make at the board of supervisors,” said Cindy Lewis, senior planner of the Wallace Group. “Staff is supportive of the changes we’ve made, and we believe this is the best project we can provide for the site.”

To do that, planners reduced the size of some units to create more parks in the proposed community.

TAAG Chair Bill Hockey said he voted in support of the project this time around because developers were within their rights to build it.

“They are within the current zoning on that property,” Hockey said. “They were within their rights to do what they did.”

Some had questioned whether residential construction could occur in an area zoned as recreation. Templeton’s recreation zone has flexibility built into it for residential.

The proposed development involves construction of 107 homes, consisting of 4-packs that include shared walls, along with traditional, single-family lots.

Hockey said that, included in the project design is a realignment of Toad Creek, an action accepted by the Department of Fish and Game, and that will stop flooding that now regularly occurs.

The project will now return to the county planning commission and ultimately back to the supervisors for approval.