Dave Chappelle said he's 'not bluffing' as he threatened to pull investments from the small community where he lives if an affordable-housing development were built

• Dave Chappelle was among Yellow Springs, Ohio, residents who opposed an affordable-housing plan.
• Chappelle said if a new development had affordable housing, he'd pull investments from the village.

Residents of a small Ohio village — including the comedian Dave Chappelle — expressed concerns at a Monday-night council meeting over plans to build an affordable-housing development, the local news outlet Dayton Daily News reported.

The village council of Yellow Springs ultimately voted 2-2 on the affordable-housing plan, with one member abstaining, a tie that prevented it from being included in a 53-acre development that remains on track to be built.

The development is now expected to consist of 143 single-family homes starting at $300,000 each, which the council previously approved, according to the Daily News.

Yellow Springs, located east of Dayton, has a population of about 3,500 people. Chappelle, who lives in the area and frequented there as a child, threatened to remove all of his business investments from the area should the affordable-housing development be built.

"I cannot believe you would make me audition for you," Chappelle said as he took the mic, referring to Oberer Homes, with which the council planned to build the development. "You look like clowns."

"I am not bluffing," Chappelle continued during the council meeting. "I will take it all off the table."

Chappelle didn't cite specific concerns with the affordable-housing development, but Monday's meeting wasn't his first time going against it.

"I just want to say I am adamantly opposed to it," Chappelle said at a December council meeting. "I have invested millions of dollars in town. If you push this thing through, what I'm investing in is no longer applicable."

Chappelle's publicist Carla Sims told Insider that he "didn't kill affordable housing." Sims added that the comedian and other residents were concerned with the approach to the development.

"Neither Dave nor his neighbors are against affordable housing," Sims said, "however, they are against the poorly vetted, cookie-cutter, sprawl-style development deal which has little regard for the community, culture, and infrastructure of the Village."

"Without question, Dave Chappelle cares about Yellow Springs. He's sewn into the fabric of the Village," she continued.

Chappelle has plans to build a restaurant called Firehouse Eatery and a comedy club called Live from YS in the area.

Representatives for Oberer Homes, and the Yellow Springs council didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.