Edwards purchased an older home at the northeast corner of Cheek Sparger Road and Felps Drive and completed extensive remodeling prior to occupying the building. The city received a complaint about the property being used as an office, and determined that the use of the building was not in compliance with the R20 (residential) zoning. According to the applicant, she was advised to apply for Commercial Professional Office zoning and did so. After two hearings each at the Planning & Zoning Commission and City Council meetings for that zoning request, Edwards was advised by the council to return to the P&Z level and change her rezoning request to PUD-R. That zoning category allows mixed land uses on the same site, and allows the city to place additional restraints on the use of the property.

During the various hearings many residents of the Andy Felps subdivision spoke in favor of the rezoning request, while residents from the Bridlewood subdivision and neighborhoods south of Cheek Sparger spoke against it. This was the second time in the last year and a half that the neighborhoods took opposite positions on a zoning case. Residents of the newer subdivisions in the area opposed the rezoning request in 2000 that would have allowed the owners of the older homes in the area to sell to a developer who planned to create a commercial center anchored by a Wal Mart Neighborhood Grocery.