CHAPEL HILL -- The owners of the Glen Lennox property revised part of their plan for redeveloping the neighborhood after a meeting with residents earlier this month and before submitting their concept plan to the town last week.

Developers eliminated one small retail building planned for near the Church of the Holy Family on Hayes Road, Grubb Properties spokesman Jim Schaafsma said Friday morning. Residents of the apartment cottages didn't want a business so close to a church.

Also, the plan had originally shown one of the three parking decks and attached building standing over Flemington Road, so that cars would have to drive through the deck to get to the other side of Flemington. The new concept plan has the parking deck and adjoined building pushed back from Flemington Road, so the road would remain an open street, Schaafsma said.

"We've told our residents and neighbors that the concept plan is not cast in stone," he added. "We are very open-minded about continued changes."

The developers submitted a concept plan Wednesday in hope of getting onto the Community Design Commission's May agenda, Schaafsma said.

Grubb Properties owns the Glen Lennox shopping center and the rental cottages. The rest of the neighborhood includes houses owned by residents.

A concept plan is a collection of rough drawings that show relative placements of buildings and other features, approximate numbers of commercial and residential units and approximate heights of buildings. The concept plan is an informal first step in the review process for developments in Chapel Hill and can change many times.

When a concept plan is submitted to the town's Planning Department, it first goes to the Community Design Commission for review. Then it goes before the Chapel Hill Town Council, along with the Design Commission's comments.

Going before the Town Council with a concept plan does not mean the proposed project has entered the formal review process. The concept plan review is an informal session where developers and architects get feedback. If they decide to proceed, it helps them understand how to satisfy the town's needs and demands.

It is not guaranteed that the Design Commission will review the Glen Lennox concept plan in May. The commission may have too many other projects already on its monthly agenda, which could push the Glen Lennox plan back.

The redevelopment would replace the shopping center and 440 apartment units on the 70-acre property with a multi-use "village." The plan has been compared to Meadowmont and Southern Village.

The concept plan includes 908 new homes: 35 single-family lots and a mix of multi-family homes, including apartments, condominiums and town houses -- 288 one-bedroom units, 515 two-bedroom units and 70 three-bedroom units.

Plans also show there could be retail, restaurant and office space, as well as three parking decks. There could be a 55,000-square-foot grocery store, a drugstore and a 700-seat movie theater. It could include a seven- to nine-story, 190-room hotel.

The restaurants and shops would measure a total of about 151,700 square feet, and offices would make up about 310,800 square feet. The redevelopment would provide a total of 3,665 parking spaces, divided among residents, retail and office tenants and customers. About 2,090 parking spaces are required under town ordinance for a project this big.

Developers would build in four phases, with the existing apartments being torn down in phases. Developers estimate that, if approved and everything goes smoothly, they would break ground for the first phase three years after approval.