DETROIT, MI -- City Council on Tuesday rejected a $1.4-million offer for 301 parcels of land that would be used to build a new bridge to Canada.

The council in July delayed a vote on the matter after requests for a community benefits agreement to go along with the land sale.

The city's state-appointed emergency manger Kevyn Orr added a non-binding community benefits agreement to the proposal, but residents of the southwest Detroit neighborhood where one end of the bridge to Windsor will be built have continued to oppose the deal.

The council rejected it in a 9-0 vote.

Orr can impose the sale despite the council's rejection, with approval from a state emergency loan board.

The council will have seven days to present to the loan board an alternative proposal, which Council member Raquel Castaneda-Lopez, who represents southwest Detroit, intends to draft.

A Monday special council session was set for 2:30 p.m. to discuss an alternative.

The council was awaiting a report from the city assessor's office on the value of the land.

Land acquisition remains one of the few hurdles left standing in the way of building the long-awaited New International Trade Crossing.

Canada plans to cover most of the cost of building the $2.1 billion bridge. Toll money from the U.S. side would then go toward repayment.

U.S. State Department approval was granted last year and the final Coast Guard permit came last month.

Officials in Ottawa and in Michigan are also awaiting a $250 million promise from Washington to build a customs plaza on the U.S. side.

The bridge would be a second commuter span between Detroit and Windsor.

Officials hope to open the bridge in 2020.

The owner of the existing Ambassador Bridge has opposed construction of a publicly owned second span.