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The Maiden planning board rejected updated plans for a 250-unit housing development at its meeting Monday, Maiden Planning and Zoning Director Blake Wright said.

The Maiden Town Council voted down a proposal for a 349-unit residential development near U.S. 321 Business. The vote was 4-1 on Tuesday. The rejection came near the end of a more than three-hour meeting which was dominated by discussion of the project. Around a dozen people spoke, nearly all in opposition. Plans for the development, which would have been located off GKN Way and JW Abernathy Plant Road with access to U.S. 321 Business, indicated the development would have density of more than t...