UPDATE: February 6:Some Gardendale residents' efforts to fight a proposed townhome development has apparently paid off.Mayor Stan Hogeland of Gardendale told WVTM 13 News that he made the announcement to a packed room at the city council meeting this evening that the property owner had withdrawn a request to build townhomes on Moncrief Road.The folks in attendance applauded the news.Mayor Hogeland said the property owner may want to meet with a small group of residents to discuss ways to find out what type of development would be more acceptable to them.----------------------------------------Some Gardendale residents are fighting a request by developers to build townhomes down the street from the city's new sports complex. They want to build three separate buildings with six townhomes in each fronting Moncrief Road. Added traffic on this road is one of the main concerns nearby residents have.The speed limit on Moncrief Road is 35 mph. But residents say very few drivers abide by that, and there are plenty of cars traveling this road that's just over a mile long. Gardendale resident Misti Boackle lives nearby. She says, “It's pretty much a general consensus up and down the road, and in the neighborhoods, that nobody wants it. The main concern is the traffic, the added traffic.”They're already bracing for the additional cars and people the new sports complex on Moncrief will bring. But they're also against the idea of building multi-family housing in an area of predominantly single-family homes. They’re concerned it will hurt their property values. Buddy Mabrey lives across the street from the proposed development. He says, “People outgrow them, they can’t get back what they want for them, they become rental units, and it’s a fact people don't take care of something they don't own. So I hate to see property values go down in the neighborhood because someone wants to make a buck off it.”The developer sent us renderings and pictures of what the proposed townhomes will look like. He says they'll be upscale and sell for about $275,000 each. But to build them, the city council will have to change the zoning. Mayor Stan Hogeland says, “From what I'm hearing, no matter how nice they are, the people who live in this area don't want them, and it’s not currently zoned for that.” The developer didn't want to go on camera, saying he'd prefer to address residents’ concerns one on one with them. He did point out, though, that under current zoning, someone could build almost 30 homes on this nine-acre track, which he says would create much more traffic than what he's proposing.Concerned residents are meeting Thursday night at 6 p.m. at the Gardendale Civic Center. The planning and zoning commission meets next Thursday, Feb. 9.