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The Town Council last week amended La Conner’s Comprehensive Plan to rezone historic Hedlin’s Ballfield for residential use.

But the unanimous action does not prevent the nearly two-acre site from remaining an open public use area.

Town Planner Marianne Manville-Ailles told Council during its almost two-hour Jan. 12 Zoom meeting that public uses are allowed within residential zones.

That has kept the door at least slightly ajar for a recently formed local citizen’s advisory group to raise funds and work toward retaining the present status of the Hedlin property as a youth sports field...