Dave Chappelle: If Yellow Springs Build Sprawl, I'm Leaving The Village!

Yellow Springs is not going to be sprawling community.

The comedian warned the village of Yellow Springs, Ohio that if a developer builds sprawl near the village, he will pull his investments and move out.

Dave Chappelle travels between his hometown of Washington, DC and his farm in Yellow Springs, a village that is 10 miles from Dayton.

He threatened to pull the plug on his plans to open a comedy club because a corporate developer  Oberer Companies, a Dayton, Ohio developer wanted to build a new development near Yellow Springs.

It faced a huge backlash. 

Chappelle being one of the leading members of the opposition.

The village and Oberer had worked together to produce a plan that would include duplexes and affordable housing along with single-family homes in a 53-acre area along Spillan Road at the south edge of town.

The 143 single family homes on the lot, with the homes starting at $300,000 were roundly opposed.

The village annexed 34 acres of land into the village last year.

The development that the council voted on Monday night would have included 64 single family homes, 52 duplexes and 24 townhomes with an addition 1.75 acres to be donated to the community for affordable housing.

Chappelle and residents lobbied against the project saying that the village would become a target of sprawl.

He was interested in building a restaurant called Firehouse Eatery and Live from YS.

Chappelle's company, Iron Table Holding, LLC, bought a former Miami Township fire station and he plans on building investments in the village.

Had Yellow Springs decided to go ahead with the building of the property, he would pulled out of the projects and move out of the village.

Chappelle said that he did not "kill" the deal. He said that the company's deceptive practices and the determination to ruin a beacon of diversity.

Yellow Springs is considered a progressive community. It is probably the only part of Greene County, Ohio that the Democratic Party has a strong play in. Greene County is strongly Republican.