Editor’s note: The following is a clarification to Wednesday’s City Council story, “City Council approves land rezoning.” The council approved a land-use policy change, not a rezoning. The Daily regrets the error.

The Ames City Council on Tuesday endorsed a compromise put forth by a Tennessee developer who has expressed interest in building a shopping center in Ames.

Developer Bucky Wolford, in an Aug. 18 memo addressed to Ames Mayor Ann Campbell, promised to incorporate a City of Ames Welcome Center into the shopping center as well as pledge $150,000 toward a bike path from Dayton Avenue to the Interstate 35 interchange.

The Council, in a 4-1 vote, designated the area, located northeast of the Interstate 35 and 13th St. interchange, as commercial rather than industrial.

Councilman Dan Rice, who was the only council member to vote against the measure.

He said changing the land-use policy designation does not legally bind the land for commercial use.

The vote, he said, provides only the council’s recommendation for the future of the property.

Wolford must still purchase the land.