"If this is a way to do it, then let's do it," she said.
The Council also "re-filed" two proposed versions to extend the Interim Planning Overlay Petition (IPOP) at the meeting, said Davis.
The IPOP is effectively an ordinance that prohibits any project in excess of 50,000 square feet from getting a building permit. Exceptions would be made for buildings that get exemptions from the city's Planning Board that say they will not be a traffic headache, Winters said.
The current IPOP expires Oct. 1. On Monday night, the Council referred two different proposals for a post-Oct. 1 IPOP to the Planning Board and the Committee on Ordinances for consideration, Duehay said.
One is a citizen petition that would extend the IPOP as it is, while the other is a Planning Board proposal that would add new exemptions--such as ones for dormitories--to the ordinance.
The two proposals will now go through a "complicated process" before a decision is made, said Winters.
"Who knows what the Council will do in the end," Winters said.
Toomey, Reeves and Triantafillou could not be reached for comment last night.