Story highlights Adam Lanza killed his mother at the home before killing 26 others at a school

Neighbors and townspeople have hoped that the house would be torn down

(CNN) Newtown, Connecticut, council members voted unanimously Wednesday to tear down the home of Adam Lanza, the site where he killed his mother before massacring 26 others at a nearby elementary school in 2012, according to First Selectman Patricia Llodra.

The spacious yellow colonial, which sits on a hill on a grassy 2-acre property, was the first of two crime scenes in December 2012. Lanza, 20, shot his mother through her forehead in her second-floor bedroom.

Lanza then went to nearby Sandy Hook Elementary School and killed 20 children and six educators before killing himself.

There is no timetable to raze the home, but Mary Ann Jacob, chairman for the Newtown Legislative Council, said a town meeting will be held, which is a formality, and then "the demolition can take place as soon as is practical."

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