A month after the board of mayor and aldermen passed the 2045 Tullahoma Comprehensive Plan, they have voted to repeal the long-awaited measure.

However, it won’t be another five years in the making like the original 2045 Plan as the repeal was simply to take it off the books as an ordinance and to reaffirm it as a resolution for legal reasons.

The motion to rescind the plan was placed by Alderman Busch Thoma after he consulted with the City Attorney Brittany Hoskins. “Most cities do their comprehensive plans by resolution,” she explained to the board Monday night. “The reason is that the Comprehensive Plan is not a binding document. We follow it as a guide but you are not required to follow exactly.”

She noted that an ordinance is more binding and that be making it a resolution it allows the city more flexibility. She added that no wording would be changed by making it a resolution rather than an ordinance but just like in its first ratification, it will be need to pass two readings to be official. That first reading was passed Monday following the rescinding of the ordinance.

“You’re more protected from a legal standpoint,” she said of making 2045 into a resolution.

Aldermen Kurt Glick and Bobbie Wilson asked for more time to consider the move. They were the only ones voting against rescinding the ordinance. The resolution still has to pass on a second reading.