McBride said in a news release on Friday it was willing to consider a public-private partnership on up to 11 acres of the property to create a park, although it would not include golf or baseball facilities.

Clancy said in an interview Monday that many of her constituents wanted to see the site preserved as green space, and she planned a series of town hall meetings with Affton residents “to ensure they have a say in what happens at the Tower Tee site.”

McBride said in a news release Monday that it would wait until after those meetings to resubmit plans with the county.

County Council members have not indicated how they might vote on a rezoning. For the past year, at nearly every meeting, council members have heard from residents mourning the loss of an institution that defined their area of the county, and fearful of increased traffic that dozens of new homes would create. Even months after Tower Tee closed, they have showed up every week to implore the County Council to deny the zoning change.

The leader of the effort to preserve Tower Tee has been Michael Burton. He said he has enough signatures from surrounding landowners to trigger a provision in state law that would require a supermajority of the County Council — five members instead of just four — to approve the zoning change.