Due to interest rates and rising construction prices, the developer will wait a year before razing nine vintage houses on the 500 block of West Washington Avenue for the project.

As development booms in Madison, the city may soon change rules to approve rezonings that are part of some big housing and commercial projects. Three City Council members have offered an ordinance that would remove a provision that now allows immediate neighbors to a redevelopment to file a “protest petition” that forces council approval for a rezoning from a simple majority vote to a supermajority of 15 of 20 members.