City commissioners voted 5-2 at a special meeting Monday night to change the land-use designation for the location of a proposed one-stop homeless center at 3335 N Main Terrace.
At the same meeting, they voted to wait four to six months before beginning to lease the building that would serve as the center's facility.
The proposed site has met controversy as residents of nearby communities have opposed the location.
"It just doesn't do us justice as a community to continue this failure to act," Mayor Pegeen Hanrahan said at the meeting.
The site, which was selected in March 2007, will offer services including meals, counseling, showers and laundry facilities. Commissioners Rick Bryant and Ed Braddy opposed the motion.
"I can't think of any location that doesn't work as much as this one," Bryant said.
Commissioners have looked into alternative sites for the center. They said Monday that one of the options, located on Northwest 53rd Avenue, was no longer available.
