The developer of a neighborhood being built in the Mitchell Farm area was denied a waiver of the requirement to install granite curbing by the Westbrook City Council Monday.

Developer Andre Belluci, who has built a dozen homes on Kennard Street in the past couple of years, argued bituminous curbing matched the surrounding neighborhoods.

Residents of Chestnut Street also attended the meeting to speak out against the waiver. Resident Mark LeClair said when the roads are replaced, granite curbing will be installed, and Kennard Street will be the only one that doesn’t match.

City Councilor John O’Hara agreed. “For a long time in this community, we did not have standards,” said O’Hara. Implementing them was “a long, hard battle,” he said.

“To start to deviate from that now would not be in the best interest of all of us,” said O’Hara. “You folks shouldn’t settle for anything less.”

Residents of Kennard Street had signed a petition asking the city to waive the requirement. However, at the meeting, Kennard Street residents said they only signed it because they thought it would speed up the process of making it into a public street. Kennard is a private road, where residents do not receive city services like snow plowing and garbage collection.

The City Council voted 6-0 to deny the waiver.