Covell Village was planned as an infill project but rejected by the voters in the fall of 2005. The village center was designed to include an adjacent shopping center providing a full range of services that could easily be reached by pedestrians or bike for those living in the new project as well as existing neighborhoods.

     It was composed of 1300 single family homes and 286 Multi-Family units, 64 Co-op houses, 63 mutual housing, 43 non-profit apartment units, 85 senior citizen condominiums and in the village center 34 work-live buildings and 50 lofts of over village center buildings. The project was to include passive solar heating and cooling, solar water heating and photovoltaic electric generation on all buildings, 776 acres of adjacent farmland was to be set aside permanently, including an 82 acre organic farm for experimental and educational use.