The Chapel Hill Town Council has approved a plan that will tighten building restrictions and close loop-holes in the Neighborhood Conservation Districts in the Northside and Pine Knolls neighborhoods.

The council voted unanimously to pass the plan, which will tightens rules, calls for more preservation and education programs and stricter enforcement of already existing town ordinances.

Members of the neighborhoods and representatives from the Sustaining OurSelves coalition, which wrote the plan, spoke at the meeting, along with some investors and property owners.