Newton’s Zoning and Planning Committee passed new rules for defining floodplains to comply with FEMA requirements in its meeting on Monday.

The project, which is led by Greensboro-based company MagnaGray, was approved by the Lexington City Council in a 5-3 vote.

As expected, eight out of nine councillors supported bans on single- and two-family zones, dubbed “exclusionary zoning,” to ...