SAVANNAH, Ga. (WSAV) — In front of a packed meeting room, the Chatham–Savannah Metropolitan Planning Commission (MPC) voted in favor of expanding the Hotel Overlay District on Tuesday.

The district has three boundaries which control what hotels can and can't be built in certain areas. Expanding this district to the Victorian, Streetcar and Cuyler-Brownville neighborhoods essentially would ban hotels there.

The commission meeting at one point was standing room only, and the large majority of people in the audience stayed for the Hotel Overlay discussion. Over a dozen residents signed up to passionately speak to the commission about the issue.

"We know what we want," Jason Combs, vice president of the Thomas Square Neighborhood Association, said. "We put the survey out there. We proved it

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